Volume 1

The Cyclopaedia of practical medicine : comprising treatises on the nature and treatment of diseases, materia medica and therapeutics, medical jurisprudence, etc., etc. / edited by John Forbes ... Alexander Tweedie ... John Conolly.

Date:
1833-1835
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    which conveyed an assurance of the gencnil correctness of these views. The circulation of the work soon extended to every portion of tlie British empire, to the Colonies, and to America ; and the publishers have from time to time informed them that its sale was steadily proceeding. The lulitors have un- doubtedly received these intimations with pleasure ; not only because they W'ere connected with benefit derived by those who had adventured in a liberal undertaking, but because they thought they perceived in such circumstances a proof of an increasing zeal for exact and comprehensive knowledge on the part of British ])ractitioners of every rank, in every part of the world. However natural and proper it may be for the Editors to take a retrospective survey of the work when it is brought to a conclusion, and to examine with what fidelity they have fulfilled their engagements, and how fiir and how equally the various departments of practical medicine have in their turn occu- pied their attention, it is hardly possible to express the I’esults of this retro- spection in words which will not expose them to the charge of being disposed to look back upon their exertions with too much complacency. Yet they may perhaps be allowed to say, that if the reader will take the trouble to inspect the mere titles of the articles contained in these columns, comprehending nearly three hundred original essays of known and distinguished authors, and will bear in mind either the leading physiological divisions of diseases, or consider them with reference to the head, the chest, the abdomen, the surface, or the general condition of the body ; as well as the subjects of obstetrical medicine, materia medica, or medical jurisprudence ; he will sufficiently appreciate the care bestowed to make the Cyclopaedia satisfactory to all who refer to its j)ages, and at the same time strictly a book of practical reference. No subject, it is believed, immediately practical in its nature or application, has been left out, although unnecessary disquisition has been as much as possible avoided. It has consistently entered into their ]dan to admit of a far wider range of subjects than appears heretofore to have been considered necessary in works professedly written on the practice of medicine, but a range comprising many new subjects of extreme importance to those engaged in practice or pi-eparing for it. Such are the subjects of Abstinence, Acupuncture, Age, Change of Air, Antiphlogistic Regimen, Asphyxia, Auscultation, Bathing, Bloodletting, Morbid States of the Blood, Climate, Cold, Contagion, Convalescence, Coun- ter-irritation, Derivation, Congestion and Determination of Blood, Dietetics, Disinfection, Physical Education, Electricity, Endemic Diseases, Epidemics, Expectoration, Exploration of the Chest and Abdomen, Galvanism, Hereditary Transmission of Disease, Induration, Irritation, Infection, Latent Diseases, Malaria and Miasma, Perforation, Prognosis, Pseudo-morbid Appearances, Pulse, Softening, Medical Statistics, Stethoscope, Sudden Death, Symptoma- tology. Temperament, Toxicology, Transformations, Transfusion, Tubercle, Ventilation, Mineral Waters; and those of various general articles on the ])uthology of organs.