Observations on M. Laennec's method of forming a diagnosis of the diseases of the chest by means of the stethoscope, and of percussion; and upon some points of the French practice of medicine

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I am inclined to think, that during the inflammatory diathesis, a larger proportion of fibrin than natural is actually formed in the assimilating process; and it is further probable that it is not distributed as usual to the several fibrous textures of the body. In my Essay on the Blood, I have suggested this last hypothesis.

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