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
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    unhappiness. They are also, in some form or other, incidental to every constitution, and are literally of daily and hourly occurrence, hrom fever, the severest of the acute diseases from which medical care effects frequent recovery, to the habitual distresses produced by the imperfect digestion of food, they demand the continual attention of the practitioner. The relations of gastro-intestinal iiritation with numerous disorders of the chest, head, skin, and extremities, and with fever, as causes or effects, are among the most interesting questions which have been agitated by the most eminent of modern ])hysicians in this and in other countries, and the practical application of the researches of pathologists concerning the morbid states of the digestive mucous membrane remains an object anxiously sought by those acquainted with the exigences of various practice, and who are not content to practise without reflection. So indiscriminate, also, generally speaking, is the treatment of the various modifications of indigestion,—the chronic irritations of the intestines are often so long overlooked,—so empirically are undefined disorders of the liver prescribed for,—and the conduct of the dietetical part of practice, even in fevers, and still more in chronic disorders, is so capricious,—that it may be permitted to the liiditors to hope that some improvement may ensue from the circulation of the sounder and better founded notions of pathology and practice explained and advocated in the various essays on abdominal diseases which contribute to give value to these volumes. The department of Cutaneous Diseases ha.s, it will be seen, engaged the pens of Dr. Corrigan, Dr. Cumin, Dr. G. Gregory, Dr. Houghton, Dr. .Toy, Dr. Kerr, Dr. A. T. Thomson, and Dr. T. J. Todd, by whom, as was to be expected, this important branch of study, which enjoys but a small share of popularity in this country, has received full pathological and practical illus- tration. As regards some affections implicating the whole system, and particularly the fluids, it is but just to allude to the admirable treatises on Gout and Plethora, as being worthy of the high reputation before attained by the author of them as a ])hilosoj)hical physician and an experienced practitioner. Nor can the Editors pass silently over the elaborate article on Tubercular Phthisis, of which it is but one among many excellences that it invites the attention from that contemplation of local lesions which leads to practical results of little value, to a more enlarged consideration of the subject, pregnant with the most momentous practical consequences. The names of Dr. Marshall Hall, Dr. Lee, Dr. Locock, and Dr. Montgomery, affixed to the several articles connected with the Diseases of Women and Children, will be a sufficient assurance to every reader that this responsible part of medicine has not been confided to inefficient hands. Nothing could be more compatible with the plan of the Cyclopmdia than the brief, clear, and instructive essays furnished by these able and experienced practitioners.