Excerpt from New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 51: July, 1898, to June, 1899 Latent deposits in one apex are more easily recognized by phys ical examination after several or more months have elapsed since their formation; I have frequently been able to find them in brothers and sisters of patients who came with them as com panions, entirely unconscious of their own af iction. I have also been able to confirm the diagnosis in such cases by subsequent development of destructive changes in the latent deposits; sometimes years after I made the early diagnosis, which the individuals were unwilling to accept in the first place, because of their apparent good health. 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."