A SYSTEM OF PRACTICAL MEDICINE. BY AMERICAN AUTHORS. EDITED BY WILLIAM PEPPER, M.D., LL.D., PROVOST AND PROFESSOR OF THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MEDICINE AND OF CLINICAL MEDICINE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. ASSISTED BY LOUIS STARR, M.D., CLINICAL PROFESSOR OF DISEASES OF CHILDREN IN THE HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. VOLUME III. DISEASES OF THE RESPIRATORY, CIRCULATORY, AND HÆMATOPOIETIC SYSTEMS. PHILADELPHIA: LEA BROTHERS & CO. 1885. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1885, by LEA BROTHERS & CO., in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. All rights reserved. WESTCOTT & THOMSON, _Stereotypers and Electrotypers, Philada._ WILLIAM J. DORNAN, _Printer, Philada._ CONTENTS OF VOLUME III. DISEASES OF THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM. PAGE LARYNGOSCOPY AND RHINOSCOPY. By CARL SEILER, M.D. . . . . . . . . 19 DISEASES OF THE NASAL PASSAGES. By HARRISON ALLEN, M.D. . . . . . 41 NEUROSES OF THE LARYNX. By HOSMER A. JOHNSON, M.D., LL.D. . . . . 59 ACUTE CATARRHAL LARYNGITIS (FALSE OR SPASMODIC CROUP). By ABRAHAM JACOBI, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 PSEUDO-MEMBRANOUS LARYNGITIS. By ABRAHAM JACOBI, M.D. . . . . . . 100 DISEASES OF THE LARYNX. By LOUIS ELSBERG, A.M., M.D. . . . . . . 109 DISEASES OF THE TRACHEA. By LOUIS ELSBERG, A.M., M.D. . . . . . . 133 TRACHEOTOMY. By GEORGE M. LEFFERTS, A.M., M.D. . . . . . . . . . 145 DISEASES OF THE BRONCHI. By N. S. DAVIS, M.D., LL.D. . . . . . . 164 BRONCHIAL ASTHMA. By W. H. GEDDINGS, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 HAY ASTHMA. By W. H. GEDDINGS, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 DILATATION OF THE BRONCHIAL TUBES, CIRCUMSCRIBED AND DIFFUSED. By SAMUEL C. CHEW, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 EMPHYSEMA. By SAMUEL C. CHEW, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232 COLLAPSE OF THE LUNG (ATELECTASIS). By SAMUEL C. CHEW, M.D. . . . 250 CONGESTION AND OEDEMA OF THE LUNGS (HYPOSTATIC PNEUMONIA). By SAMUEL C. CHEW, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258 HÆMOPTYSIS. By WILLIAM CARSON, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266 PULMONARY APOPLEXY. By WILLIAM CARSON, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . 293 ABSCESS OF THE LUNG. By WILLIAM CARSON, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . 296 GANGRENE OF THE LUNG. By WILLIAM CARSON, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . 301 CROUPOUS PNEUMONIA. By ALFRED L. LOOMIS, M.D., LL.D. . . . . . . 307 CATARRHAL PNEUMONIA. By WILLIAM PEPPER, M.D., LL.D. . . . . . . . 353 PULMONARY EMBOLISM. By BEVERLEY ROBINSON, M.D. . . . . . . . . . 373 PULMONARY PHTHISIS (FIBROID PHTHISIS OR CHRONIC INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA). By AUSTIN FLINT, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391 SYPHILITIC DISEASE OF THE LUNG. By EDWARD T. BRUEN, M.D. . . . . 447 PNEUMONOKONIOSIS. By EDWARD T. BRUEN, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . 454