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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861. Excerpt:... APPENDIX. i. STATEMENT OF DE. MARSHALL HALL'S CASE. Written from his Dictation, and sent to Mr. Paget of Bartholomew's Hospital, July 22nd, 1857. 1. About eighteen years ago, after too much lecturing, a degree of hoarseness, which induced Mr. Guthrie to say I had the " clergyman's throat," and to advise me to give up lecturing. 2. Some time after this, J first perceived that particles of food were retained in my pharynx for several hours after taking meals, and even, occasionally, during the whole of the night. 3. After this, I became a little liable to choking during eating, with dislodgment of portions of food from the pharynx. My pharynx also became very excitable, and I could not drink a draught, of cold water for example, without choking. 4. About ten years ago, my throat became rather worse, and I consulted Dr. Chambers and Sir B. Brodie together. The former passed the stomach tube and discovered no lesion. The latter proposed the valerianate of zinc. 5. After this my health continued as usual until the end of 1852, when I perceived purple spots on my ankles, and was induced to make a tour through the United States. 6. During this tour I experienced brow-ague at New Orleans and again at Havana, which I removed by large doses of quinine. My spots gradually disappeared, and I was in my usual health. 7. I returned to England, and remained in good health. We spent the winter and spring of 1855 in Italy, and the ensuing summer in Paris. 8. The following winter was spent in London, and during that period I first observed a little hawking of blood, which chiefly appeared during dressing, or quick walking, or exposure to the cold, and I had a very slight bronchitis. 9. In the summer of 1856,.my dysphagia became decidedly worse. In October I caught cold and...