Volume 1

The science and practice of medicine / By William Aitken ... From the 4th London ed., with additions, by Meredith Clymer.

  • Aitken, William, 1825-1892.
Date:
1866
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Credit: The science and practice of medicine / By William Aitken ... From the 4th London ed., with additions, by Meredith Clymer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Lamar Soutter Library, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

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    No attempt at editing this edition of Dr. Aitken's Science and Practice of Medicine has been made. Its completeness within the author's scope, the size of the original work, and the little time allowed during its passage through the press, forbade any such purpose. Some additions have been made, with an occasional note, where it was thought necessary. These will be found chiefly under the heads of Typhoid, Relapsing, and Malarial Fevers; Dys- entery; Malignant Pustule; Syphilis; Pathology of the Dietic Diseases; Corpulence; Scurvy; Parasitic Diseases; Rheumatism; Gout; Pycemia; Chronic Bright's Disease; Diabetes Mellitus; Cancer; Diseases of the Brain and Spinal Cord; Physical Examination of the Chest; Diseases of the Circulatory Organs; Diseases of the Respiratory Organs; Dis- eases of the Digestive Organs; and Renal Diseases. Brief articles have been introduced on the following diseases: Typho-Malarial Fever; Chronic Camp Dysentery; Cholera Morbus; Cholera Infantum; Spinal Symptoms of Typhoid Fever; Hereditary Syphilis; Gonorrhoeal Rheumatism; the Delirium of Inanition; Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis; Locomotor Ataxy; Aphasia; Laryngo-Pharyngeal Paralysis; the Sphyg- mograph; Treatment of the Diseases of the Respiratory Organs by Atomized Fluids; Syphilitic Disease of the Liver. All the new matter in this edition is designated thus: [ ]. The Work was meant by the Author to be a Text-book for Students, which, following a systematic arrangement, would give a consistent view of the main facts, doctrines, and practice of Medi- cine, in accordance with the present state of the science. (Preface to the Second Edition.) It is no retrospect of the progress of Medi- cine, or record of old-time vagaries and doctrines, but a fair expo-