March 11, '48. Dismissed cured with full measurement, and four years after remains well as far as I know. 407. Dec. 18, '47. Deficiency two-tenths.

Jan. 14, '48. Fully restored, and known to be

in good health four years after.

407. S. Dec. 18, '47. Deficiency three-tenths.

April 17, '48. Deficiency nearly restored, and enjoyed a good degree of health for three years after, since when I have lost sight of this case.

410. Dec. 24, '47. A small deficiency, which was soon repaired, and four years after was in good health; since lost sight of.

414. Jan. 4, '48. Deficiency three-tenths, pulse 120.

March 22. Restored within a fraction, pulse 72, was dismissed as cured; since lost sight of. 419. Jan. 4, '48. Deficiency one-tenth, pulse 100.

Feb. 18. Fully restored, pulse 76, was in good

health four years after; since lost sight of.

421. Jan. 9, '48. Deficiency four-tenths.

April 3. Deficiency two-tenths, and still decreasing, when he had to rejoin his family; a year or two after he wrote to me that he was working on his farm, and his health continued reasonably good.

432. Jan. 29, '48. Deficiency two-tenths.

May 1. Fully repaired, since when I have heard nothing of this case.

453. Feb. 17, '48. Deficiency one-tenth.

March 29. Fully restored, and four years after

in good health.

461. March 2, '48. Deficiency one-tenth.

July 28. Fully restored, and remained in good

health four years after.

463. March 4, '48. Deficiency one-tenth.

April 2. Fully restored, and remained well four years after.

469. March 9, '48. Deficieney three-tenths. This case returned home at once, and from the fact that he was occupying a responsible government office four years after, it is reasonable to infer that the deficiency has been made up, in whole or in great part.

The object in these pages is to arrive at truthful views, if possible; there is no wish to stretch or bend facts. Indefinite statements, mental reservations, omissions of slight things, or substitutions, have done much to pervert truth and to retard the advancement of useful knowledge. I have endeavored to present facts as they are, that they may be reliably used by others hereafter, and perhaps by myself. It is therefore that I have taken occasion to qualify the statements in reference to case 469; and all that I do know of the man is, that within a month of this present writing he was not dead, but was in the exercise of his responsible official duties.

Other cases cured might have been given, much more conclusive than these, but I wished to give an equal number with the preceding class, of such as were consecutive of the kind, within a period of four months.

The prominent points to be noticed in the twelve cases just given are

1. That when there is but a small deficiency in the measurement of the lungs, it is uniformly restored by appropriate means, persevered in.

2. That when such deficiency is made up, the system returns to good health.

And the great practical lesson to be derived from the two classes of cases is

That inasmuch as when the deficiency is large, persons usually die within half a year,

That when, on the other hand, the deficiency is small, health is generally regained in a reasonable time;

Therefore, safety consists in detecting the first decrease of lung action, and in making prompt and appropriate and sufficient efforts to remove such deficiency; and that this can be done, the class of cases just given demonstrably show. It is very true that it cannot always be done, but it is accomplished with encouraging frequency.

MISTAKEN PATIENTS.

It frequently occurs, that persons coming to me, believe themselves to be consumptive, when such is not the case. In every such instance, the measurement of the lungs indicated their full and healthful action.

B. W., aged 50, Jan. 12, 1844, came to me from a private hospital. His friends did not think he could live. He complained chiefly of pains in the side and breast, yellow expectoration, binding across the breast, a feeling of rawness up and down the breast bone, chilliness, bad sleep, and a constant hack of a cough, pulse eighty-six. It was very evident to me that he had not Consumption, yet he and his immediate friends appeared perfectly certain of it. In a few weeks he got well, not needing any farther medical care. Over seven years after he was in my office, and having a wish to take his lung measurement; they were working fully and well, as they had been doing from the beginning; pulse seventy-two, lungs measure two hundred and sixty-two.

A married lady applied to me, June 3d, 1844, believing herself to be the subject of Consumption; she had pains in the sides, chilliness, flushes, frequent clearing

of the throat, expectoration of a whitish phlegm, occa sional palpitation of the heart, burning in feet and face, tightness across the chest, and coldness between the shoulder blades behind, with other minor ailments. At the end of six years she is a strong, healthy, hearty woman, weighing fifteen pounds more than she ever did in her life, her lungs measure to their full standard, and she is in all respects well.

C. W. T. Sept. 30th, 1847. Pulse 120, dry hands, a harsh, jarring cough, has to clear his throat a great deal, numerous large red splotches on its back part, as if the skin were peeled off, steady morning cough, with other symptoms. I informed him that he had nothing like Consumption, and treated him accordingly. Two years later he remained well, was actively engaged in preaching, with his lungs to their fullest healthful standard, and so remained two or three years later. Since lost sight of.

W. H. L. aged 31, applied Nov. 25th, 1847, under the full conviction that he had Consumption, especially as a sister had died of it. He had cold feet, general chilliness, pains in the left side, restless sleep, a troublesome cough at night, a little on getting up in the morning, with expectoration of a darkish matter, high pulse, and had fallen away some ten pounds; there were other ailments. His lungs measured to their full standard. He soon got well, and near four years after, he enjoyed excellent health, his lungs working fully and perfectly.

J. T. aged 22, Feb. 7th, 1848, applied. Having had a hacking cough, and clearing of the throat, with spitting of blood, and pains in the breast. With all these symptoms, his lungs measured to their fullest standard.

Three years later he was an active, healthy man of busi

ness.

S. G. R. aged 32, Feb. 16, 1848, complained of shortness of breath, daily chill from 9 to 11 o'clock, great general chilliness, a burning sensation about the breastbone, pains in the sides, ill feeling between the shoulder blades, a frequent clearing of the throat, with dryness and hurting there, great depression of spirits and nervousness, had been troubled with night-sweats. This was not Consumption. His measurement was fully up to the healthful standard, where it remained four years later, when he was engaged in the active duties of his profession.

A. W. aged 30, March 6th, 1848, pulse 100, morning cough, expectoration of a greenish, ill-smelling stuff, with previous night-sweats, some difficult breathing and troublesome cough. He soon got well, for he had no lung disease, he measured to the full healthy standard, and did so four years later.

Mrs. J. T., March 29, 1848, complained of difficult breathing very often on exercising, palpitation, night sweats previous, bloody expectoration, bad taste in the mouth of mornings, weakness and pain in the small of the back, a frequent burning pain between the shoulder blades behind, and very severe sometimes; very much oppressed at times; pains about the shoulder points; pains about the edge of the ribs, which three seatons, blistering, and cupping, failed to remove; a great deal of "bad feeling" at the pit of the stomach pretty much all the time; good deal of general chilliness, feet cold more or less every day, cold as ice, sometimes restless sleep, palpitation; had fallen off twenty-five pounds; it appeared sometimes as if breathing made the throat feel