DELIVERED BEFORE THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS IN THE YEAR 1829. BY JOHN ELLIOTSON, M.D. CANTAB. F.R.S. FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS; PHYSICIAN TO, AND LECTURER ON THE PRACTICE &c. &c. &c. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1830. CONTENTS. PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS. DISEASES OF THE EXTERNAL MEMBRANE OF THE HEART. DISEASES OF THE INTERNAL MEMBRANE OF THE HEART. It was at the particular request with which I was unexpectedly honoured by the President, that I engaged to deliver the LUMLEYAN LECTURES. When they were composed, I had no idea of printing them. After the delivery, however, of those upon the heart, in the first year of my office, some of my friends who had favoured me with their attendance urged me to the measure. Yet I do not know that I should have followed their advice, but for the singularly handsome offer of one of them,-Mr. Alcock, to whom I am under many obligations, to make for me drawings of any of the morbid specimens which I had exhibited, if I conceived that the work would be more acceptable to the profession with illustrations. To resist under these circumstances was impossible; and, whatever are the defects of my own portion of the work, I trust that they will be atoned for by the extreme accuracy and general excellence of the drawings, to which I endeavoured to render justice by engaging the talent of Mr. Skelton, who also executed the engravings of Dr. Baillie's work on Morbid Anatomy. A |
