A treatise on the theory and practice of medicine / by John Syer Bristowe.

  • John Syer Bristowe
Date:
1887
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Credit: A treatise on the theory and practice of medicine / by John Syer Bristowe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Wellcome Library for the History _of^Medicine PREFACE TO THE SIXTH EDITION. Several changes have been made, and some new matter has been incorporated, in the present edition. The most important of these variations and additions are as follows:—An account of Pasteur's preventive treatment of hydrophobia; several emendations in the chapter on skin-diseases ; brief discussions on the subjects of re- current palpitation and Raynaud's disease; descriptions of actino- mycosis and mycetoma; some modification in the chapter on scle- rosis of the nerve centres, with the addition of articles on multiple neuritis, congenital tabes dorsalis and Thomson's disease. I have to thank Dr. Herman for permission to reproduce his composite chart of the temperature in small-pox. 13 Old Buelington Street : April 1887.