Lectures : chiefly clinical / by Thomas King Chambers.

  • Thomas King Chambers
Date:
1865
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Credit: Lectures : chiefly clinical / by Thomas King Chambers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION. In the first two editions I named the selection of cUnical observations laid before the public The Renewal of Life/' meaning thereby to intimate what is more fully stated early in the volume, that the main point for the physician's consideration in disease is the deficiency of vital action, and that all successful medical treatment is a renewal of that vital action. To my annoyance the words were found strangely open to misrepresentation by several of the literary men engaged in reviewing the work. Such a risk seemed to outweigh the advantage of ex- pressing in an epigrammatic form the principles advocated, and led me to take the unusual course in the third edition last year of leaving out a great part of the title. I tried to justify the change of name by large additions to the original matter, dovetailing into the text comments made before my class on recent passing cases, and inserting twenty-three new lectures, three given at the College of Physicians, and the rest in the theatre of St. Mary's Hospital School.
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