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.
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- 1833-1835
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.
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![The several articles relating to Diseases of the Brain and Spinal Chord, and of their membranous coverings, including the important subject of the impairment of the mental manifestations, will probably be deemed by eveiy candid reader to contain accurate views of morbid structure and faithful descriptions of the most important lesions of the nervous functions. How great the talent and how high the authorities on these subjects, will be at once seen by referring to the names of the authors of the articles Apoplexy, Inflammation of the Brain, Catalepsy, Chorea, Coma, Convulsions, Delirium, Epilepsy, Headach, Hydrocephalus, Hydrophobia, Hypochondriasis, Insanity, Latent Diseases, Paralysis, Plethora, Prognosis, Somnambulism, Diseases of the Spinal Marrow, Temperament, Tetanus, Wakefulness, &c. As regards the greater number of the authors of these articles, they are well known to have been previously in much esteem with the ])ublic for treatises more or less connected with the subjects on which they undertook to write for the present work. The direction for many previous years of the attention of one of the Editors to Diseases of the Chest could not but make both him and his colleagues particularly desirous that on the subjects of the numerous and serious diseases of the lungs and of the heart, the Cyclopaedia should contain the fullest and tlie most recent information; and that the novel and still too much neglected methods of physical investigation of Auenbrugger, Laennec, Andral, Piorry, and others, should be clearly and perfectly set forth. In the articles relating to these various maladies, contributed by Dr. Carswell, Dr. Cheyne, Dr. Clark, Dr. Darwall, Dr. Hope, Dr. Johnson, Dr. Law, Dr. Townsend, Dr. Williams, &c. it is hoped that no omissions will be found. These names are for the most part so familiar to the profession, in connexion with the several subjects on which they have written in the Cyclopaedia, that the titles of the different articles would alone have suggested them, in order to give tlie stamp of valuable authority to each. As regards Diseases of the Abdomen, it may without any impropriety be mentioned that, in the articles Cholera, Cholic, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Enteritis, Epidemic Gastric Fever, Gastritis, Gastrodynia, Gastro-enteritis, Hematemesis, Hemorrhoids, Indigestion, Jaundice, Inflammation of the Liver, Peritonitis, Pyrosis, Tabes Mesenterica, Tympanites, Worms, Organic Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, Pancreas, Kidneys, &c. &c., is included a more elaborate and practical exposition of the pathology and symptomatology of the affections of the abdominal viscera generally, and of the gastro-intestinal mucous membrane in particular, than is contained in any single work previously published. The importance of correct views of this large class of common and much diversified disorders, as a basis of useful practice, is such as it would be quite needless to dilate upon. They involve consequences most seriously affecting the health of the body and the mind; and the mismanage- ment even of the lighter forms is largely productive of human discomfort and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21306515_0001_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
