Lectures on diseases of children ... / by Edward Henoch.

  • Henoch, Eduard Heinrich, 1820-1900.
Date:
1883
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    PREFACE. TiTia work contains almost exclusively the personal experience wliich I liave had the opportunity of collecting during a practice of tlurty-seven years and an almost uninterrupted dispensary service in the field of diseases of children. The supervision of the Cliil- dren's Wards in the Royal Charite, which was transferred to me in 1872, placed me in a position not only to raise the already very large number of my observations during all periods of childhood to an uu- nsual height, but also to give them the positive anatomical basis which dispensary and private practice can never secure in them- selves. It is with a reliance upon such enormous, carefully observed material, embracing all classes of a metropolitan population, that I could alone dare to assume the title of Handbook for Physicians and Students for this work, whicli is almost entirely the product of personal experience. As a matter of course, the observations of any single physician will nevertheless remain imperfect, and the older and more experi- enced he becomes, the more he will be confronted by facts which are partly opposed to those observed at an earlier period ; and for this very reason it should not be expected to find a description, or even mention, in this book of all the morbid processes occurring in childhood. More- over, I do not consider it propei, in a work on diseases of children, to burden it with tiresome repetitions of matters \Yhich are treated of in detail in all works on general and special pathology and surgery, and a knowledge of which I may assume in my clinical audience, and even more so in my readers. The subject of this work is formed by those diseases of childhood alone which are distingiiished from similar affec- tions of adult life by a preponderating frequency', or 1)}' peculiarities in their symptomatology, and for that ]-eason variola, which has become almost exceptional in children at the present time, has been ex- cluded. I can only excuse my silence concei'uing vaccination for