TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE

The 'Apothecary System' of measurement was used in the original text. The etext uses the following Unicode symbols:
℞ Prescription symbol
ʒ Dram
℥ Ounce
ℳScruple
Roman numerals, and 'ss.' for 'half', are retained, so for example '℥iss.' indicates 'one and a half ounces'.

The 'Apothecary System' of measurement was used in the original text. The etext uses the following glyphs taken from the text images:

Prescription symbol

Dram

Ounce

Scruple
Roman numerals, and 'ss.' for 'half', are retained, so for example '

iss.' indicates 'one and a half ounces'.

Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.

More detail can be found at [the end of the book].


THE
LONDON MEDICAL GAZETTE,

BEING A
WEEKLY JOURNAL
OF
Medicine and the Collateral Sciences.


SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1828.


PATHOLOGICAL ESSAYS
ON SOME
DISEASES OF THE HEART;

Being the Substance of Lectures delivered before the College of Physicians,

By P. Mere Latham, M.D.

Physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital.

[Continued from p. 7.]