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Excerpt from Proceedings of the Pathological Society of Philadelphia, 1867, Vol. 2
The specimen upon the table was removed from a man, aged forty-two, Who died in the summer of 1857, in the Pennsylvania Hospital, during the Service Of Dr. Gerhard. He had been sick for eight months. On admission he did not appear to be very ill; he had shortness of breath, and there were large bronchial rales over the posterior part of the chest. Over the base of the heart was heard a double sawing sound, completely obscuring the normal sounds. 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.
