A TREATISE ON PULMONARY CONSUMPTION; COMPREHENDING AN INQUIRY INTO THE CAUSES, NATURE, PREVENTION, AND TREATMENT OF TUBERCULOUS AND SCROFULOUS DISEASES IN GENERAL. BY JAMES CLARK, M.D. F.R.S. CONSULTING PHYSICIAN TO THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING AND QUEEN OF THE BELGIANS, AND PHYSICIAN IN ORDINARY TO THEIR ROYAL HIGHNESSES THE PHILADELPHIA: CAREY, LEA, AND BLANCHARD. 1835. HASWELL AND BARRINGTON, PRINTERS. BOSTON MEDICAL LIBRARY IN THE FRANCIS A. COUNTWAY LIBRARY OF MEDICINE ΤΟ HIS MAJESTY LEOPOLD THE FIRST, KING OF THE BELGIANS. SIRE, THE Confidence which your Majesty was long pleased to repose in me before you were called to a yet more exalted station, and the distinguished honour which you have since conferred upon me in entrusting to my professional care those nearest and dearest to you, claim from me whatever homage -not unworthy of your Majesty—it is in my power to offer, and naturally lead me to present the following Treatise for your Majesty's gracious acceptance; and when I reflect that the object of my humble labours is to inculcate doctrines of infinite importance to the health of mankind and the general well-being of society, I feel an anxious desire that it may be found not undeserving of a patronage so high and so influential. It is only by convincing the public of the comparative futility of all attempts to cure consumption, and of the signal |