Clinical lectures on diseases of the liver, jaundice and abdominal dropsy : including the Croonian Lectures on functional derangements of the liver delivered at the Royal College of Physicians in 1874.
- Charles Murchison
- Date:
- 1877
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Clinical lectures on diseases of the liver, jaundice and abdominal dropsy : including the Croonian Lectures on functional derangements of the liver delivered at the Royal College of Physicians in 1874. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![By the same Author. A TREATISE ON THE CONTINUED FEVERS OF GREAT BRITAIN. With 5 Chromolithographs, 19 Diagrams in Lithography, and 22 Woodcuts. In the eleven years which elapsed since the appearance of the first edition of this work many circumstances contributed to increase public as well as pro- fessional interest in the subject of Continued Fevers. The long delay in the appearance of this edition, since the sale of the first, resulted from the Author's desire to embody in it, as far as possible, the results of observations on the recent epidemics of Fever made by other physicians as well as by himself. Although the original plan is retained, the present edition is far from being a mere reprint of the first. Many parts of the work have been entirely rewritten. The statistical Tables in the first edition were based on 6,703 cases of Continued Fever admitted into the London Fever Hospital during ten years (1848-57), while those in the present edition are based on 28,863 cases admitted during twenty-three years (1848-70)^ comprising, in fact, the entire medical history of the Fever Hospital from the time that the different Continued Fevers were first distinguished in 1848, until, from the transfer of the pauper patients to the New Fever Asylums in 1871, the experience of the Fever Hospital ceased to be any test of the prevalence of Fevers in the Metropolis. After the publication, of the first edition, London was visited by great epidemics of Typhus and Relaps- ing Fever; the demands for admission into the Fever Hospital in consequence greatly increased, and to meet these demands the accommodation was more than doubled. In the nine years 1862-70, the number of patients admitted amounted to 28,707, the admissions in the previous sixty years of the hospital's history not exceeding 32,250. Of the 28,707 cases, fully one-half were under the Author's care, and notes, more or less complete, of these cases were taken bv the resident medical officers. Dr. Horack Jkaffrksox, Dr. C. SftUAREY, Dr. J. Barboitr, and by the Author. He has subjected nil his note-boolts to a careful perusal, made a catalogue of all cases of unusual interest, and incorporated the results in the present edition. lie has thus endeavoured, as far as possible, to give to the profession the results of the experience which he enjoyed at the London Fever Hospital during the most eventful years of it« history. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged [1873]; 8vo. price 24s. cloth. London, LONGMANS & CO.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b23983632_0006.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
