The significance of dropsy : as a symptom in renal, cardiac, and pulmonary diseases / by W.R. Basham.

  • Basham, W. R. (William Richard), 1804-1877.
Date:
1864
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Credit: The significance of dropsy : as a symptom in renal, cardiac, and pulmonary diseases / by W.R. Basham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TO THOMAS WATSON, M.D., PEKSIDKNT OF THE EOiAL COLLEGE OP PIIYSICTANS OP ENOLAND, ETC. ETC. My deak SiK, Your distinguished position as President of the Royal College of Physicians of England, raised to it as you are by the spontaneous and unanimous voice of the Fellows, would sufficiently justify the dedication of these Lectures to you. But when, to the respect which, in common with all the Fellows of the College, I entertain towards yourself per- sonally, I add the obligation you have laid me under by selecting me to deliver the Croonian Lectures, this dedica- tion becomes the sincere and earnest expression both of my esteem and gratitude. You have afforded me the opportunity of submitting to the College some further obser- vations in connection with forms of disease inseparably associated with the name of one of our most distinguished and lamented Follows. If these observations are accepted