Excerpt from The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 52: February to August, 1855 It follows, therefore, that it is wisest, as a general rule, to leave these more minute investigations for the monograph or the brochure. At this time it is my intention to relate, somewhat in detail, a re markable and rare case of considerable interest, which has come under my observation. Instances of non-congenital cardiac displacement, ectopia cor dis, independent of thoracic disease, are very rare. Arising from such disease within the chest, as pleuritic effusion, hydro-pneumo thorax, aneurism of the aorta, emphysema, diaphragmatic hernia, tumors, and possibly hypertrophy Of the heart with dilatation, they have been not unfrequently met with. 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.