Excerpt from Fibroid Diseases of the Lung: Including Fibroid Phthisis When this book was undertaken, we had for some time previously been engaged in collecting a very considerable amount Of material bearing on Fibroid Disease of the Lung. The number Of cases which we had met with during the space of three years, at the City Of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, and at the London Hospital, had grown to such an extent, and many Of them were such typical instances Of the disease, that we had resolved to publish them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.