Handbook of bacteriological diagnosis for practitioners : including instructions for the clinical examination of the blood / by W. d'Este Emery.

  • Emery, Walter d'Este, 1870-1923.
Date:
1902
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Credit: Handbook of bacteriological diagnosis for practitioners : including instructions for the clinical examination of the blood / by W. d'Este Emery. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    PREFACE. No practitioner who wishes to do his best for his patients and to promote his own interests can afiford to neglect any means of clinical investigation which may- help him.to arrive at a correct diagnosis, and offer hints as to prognosis and treatment. Pre-eminent among the more recent methods of investigation are those which are applied by the bacteriologist; and it is no exaggera- tion to say that in many of the infective diseases a diagnosis which is made without a bacterioscopic examination is either mere guess-work or can only be made so late that the patient has suffered unnecessarily in health and the practitioner in prestige; In many cases, however, the investigation requires a consider- able amount of technical skill and access to a well- equipped laboratory ; the former may perhaps be pos- sessed by the rising generation (for bacteriology is now an integral part of the medical curriculum), but it would be unfair to expect every medical man to add the latter to his already expensive equipage. But in many cases the diagnosis can be arrived at by very simple means—a few slides, cover-glasses, and stains, a good microscope (which ought to be considered as essential as a stethoscope), and a very moderate amount of technical skill will often enable the practitioner to arrive at correct diagnosis in a very short time. This little book is intended in the first instance to show exactly when this may be done, and to provide clear, succinct, and full descriptions of simple methods which may be employed. The descriptions of the operations which the practitioner can carry out for himself are mostly written in the imperative mood, and are in- tended to be referred to constantly and carried out, step by step, during the process. They represent the in-
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