Excerpt from The New York Medical Journal, Vol. 38: A Weekly Review of Medicine; July to December, 1883 If the views expressed in this paper be true, it follows that some sweeping changes will be necessary in our present interpretation of physical signs. Therefore, the facts here advanced should be carefully weighed before being accepted. Facts, however, as Opposed to theory, will always be accepted in the end, and in this paper I have endeavored to show not only that fine rales can not be produced within the lungs, but that they are in fact produced within the pleura. 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.