Volume 1

The principles of pathology / by J. G. Adami and A. G. Nicholls.

  • Adami, J. George (John George), 1862-1926.
Date:
1910-11
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Credit: The principles of pathology / by J. G. Adami and A. G. Nicholls. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    pelled to write an introductory section upon the cell and its properties, more particularly in relationship to morbid changes. The work has thus far assumed a novel, but what I am convinced is a logical, form. It begins not with a study of the blood and of circulatory disturbances, as has been usual with most works on General Pathology, but with a study of the properties of living matter. The study of circu- latory (listurl)ances is not, indeed, a part of General Pathology, and, accordingly, it is treated as the introduction to Systemic Pathology, that is, to the study of the diseases affecting individual systems and the effects of those diseased states upon the organism as a whole. As such it is treated in the second volume. It would be as appropriate, if not more so, to begin the study of General Pathology with the discussion of nervous disturbances and their effects upon the body at large. There are different orders of minds, and no work can appeal to all. For myself, in beginning my studies, I found that I could easily remember the matter of such works as the larger Ivyell’s Principles of Geology, Foster’s Physiology, and Fagge’s Medicine, to cite examples in which there was a reasoned treatment of the subject, whereas, to attempt to com- mit to memory “cram books” laden with facts and names was mental agony. 1 saved time and gained knowledge by reading my subject at large. It is to those po.sse.ssing a like order of mind that this work is addressed. It would be false modesty on my ]>art were 1 to pass l)y in silence the welcome with which the first edition of this work has been greeted. To put forth two very large volumes, in which the subject of Pathology was treated along unaccustomed lines, was a bold venture, and when, in addition, I had not hesitated to express individual view's often at variance with time-honored teachings, and knew only too well that he who at- tempts to cover the W'hole subject could not treat each department with the sureness of the specialist in that department, I had expected very consideralile criticism. Thus, I am deej)ly sensil)le of the w'arm words of commendation which have come from my colleagues and reviewers. In this edition I have endeavored to the I)est of my ability to remedy some at least of the defects of that first edition. More particularly in Section I the pages upon nuclear and nucleolar function have l)een largely rewritten; the lipoids, their relationships and chemistry, have been given fuller notice; the more recent views regarding the reduction ])rocess in the germ cells have I)een included, together with Godlew^ski’s important observations upon the influence of fhe cytoplasm upon the developing individual, together wdth some of the more important recent studies upon hybridism and Mendelism. In Section II attention may be called