Manual of diseases of the skin / from the French of Cazenave ; with notes and additions by Thomas H. Burgess.
- Pierre Louis Alphée Cazenave
- Date:
- 1854
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Manual of diseases of the skin / from the French of Cazenave ; with notes and additions by Thomas H. Burgess. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![factB, and to the generally received opinions of the day ; as, for example, on the subject of Herpes Tonsurans, and on the Vegetable parasites found in certain diseases of the scalp. M. Cazenave is a worthy successor of Biett and Alibert at the Hospital of St. Louis, and the doctrines which emanate from that noble institution must always hâve a paramount influence on the history of Cutaneous pathology. The Hospital of St. Louis contains 940 beds. Of these, 140 are devoted to surgical cases; 100 to general diseases; 100 to scrofula; and 20 to women in labour. The remaining beds, nearly 600, are occupied by persons labouring under skin diseases. So that more Cutaneous affections may be seen in a fortnight at St. Louis, than in five years at our largest London hospital. Besides the internai patients, there are from 100 to 150 out-door skin-patients seen and prescribed for, every Monday, at the dispensary attached to the hospital. To the Hospital of St. Louis, to Biett, and especially to M. Cazenave, I am indebted for a great portion of the information which I possess on the subject matter of this volume. I must also add that to the friendship and enlightened liberality of the last-named eminent physicien, I owe many facilite for acquiring information recently at St. Louis, which otherwise I might not bave enjoyed. The European réputation of M. Cazenave’s Manual is sufficient guarantee for the value of the work. A volume that has been rendered into the language of every country in which medicine » cultivated as a science, needs no furth,er eulogium to recommend it to the profession. The notes, and additions to the original test, for which I am responsible, are included within brackets [ ], or distinguished by the initial B. 12, Half-Moon Street, Piccadüly, April, 1854. T. H. Bubgess.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28049573_0006.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
