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Excerpt from Clinical Lectures on the Practice of Medicine, Vol. 1 of 2 The reader will perceive that I have introduced into this Edition several of the author's essays which were omitted from the first: of these I wish to call especial attention to his observations on two subjects - the Pulse and Cholera. The greater part of the former, which now constitutes the fourth lecture, was originally published in the Dublin Hospital Reports, nearly five and twenty years since, and contains an account of the first accurate experiments which were made as to the effects of posture on the frequency of the pulse; - an inquiry which has been since then carefully investigated by Knox, Guy and others, with the effect of stamping with correctness the original observations of Dr. Graves, and proving their practical value. The subject of the Cholera is just at present an all-important one, when this pestilence is ravaging a great portion of the globe, and those countries which have been once and but once before afflicted with it, are again threatened with a visitation. Shortly after the cessation of the previous epidemic, Dr. Graves read an essay before the College of Physicians on its origin and progress, chiefly with the view of proving its contagious character; this essay which was published at the time, in the Dublin Journal of Medical Science, is now remodelled, and a short history of the present epidemic as far as it had advanced at the time those lectures were going through the press, added. The lectures on Fever which constitute so large and so valuable a portion of the first Volume will be found to be much altered as regards arrangement; and the causes and mode of diffusion of the late epidemic with which this country was visited, have been noticed. Although many years have elapsed since several of the author's views on the physiology, pathology, and treatment of diseases were first published, and the science of medicine has been since extraordinarily advanced by the aid of the Chemist and the Histologist, but few alterations or omissions have been required to adapt them to the present state of knowledge. 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.