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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    eition of the Medical Science and Art of the day, summarized understandingly. Intended for the use of the Medical Officers of the British Army, the influence of Climate upon disease has been kept in view, and the Author has largely availed himself of the practical contributions of the Medical Staff of the British Army and Navy, and of the resident physicians of the East Indies, both in the description and treatment of the disorders of hot countries. The Department of Medical or ]Soso-Greography, which treats of the conditions by which health and disease are distributed over the globe, and is the basis of hygiology, receives attention for the first time in a Treatise on the Practice of Medicine. The practical importance of the Thermometry of Disease is set forth, and diagrams illustrative of the typical ranges of temperature, particularly in febrile diseases, are given for the first time in a text- book. Wood-cuts have been introduced wherever it was thought they would render the descriptions in the text more intelligible; and short sections, relative to the main points to be attended to in clinical diagnosis, have been given at the heads of the chapters treating of those diseases in the course of which lesions tend to be localized. {Preface to the Second Edition.) M. C. New York, October, 1866.