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.
- Date:
- 1848
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: 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. 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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![opinions, which form part of the medicine of the day, and to omit nothing calculated, in his view, to throw additional light on the subjects canvassed. These additions he has striven to make in such a manner as not to interfere with the general tenor of the articles; and to cause them to read as if they had proceeded from the pen of the original writers. The interstitial additions are enclosed in brackets [ ]. Besides these, he has inserted different topics, which had been wholly omitted in the English edition, some of which are essentially American in their character. To these additions his signature is appended. For one article, on the History of American Medicine before the Revolution, he is indebted to Dr. J. B. Beck, of New York. In making these additions, the undersigned has endeavoured to be as brief as perspicuity would permit; and, where his opinions have been fully expressed elsewhere,—to avoid repetition, he has referred to them for further details. On every occasion he has been anxious to cite the views and observations of cotemporary, and particularly of American, writers, w^here such view^s and observations appeared to him to merit especial notice. Appearing, as the work originally did, in parts, articles were necessarily omitted in their proper places, and many were thrown into a supplement. This defective arrangement has been rectified as far as was practicable, so that the American edition will, in this respect, be found to possess advan- tages, as a book of reference, over its English prototype. The History of Medicine, which, in the English edition, was prefixed to the alphabetic portion, takes its proper place in the third volume of the American edition. One subject only has been omitted—Medical Bibliography—which formed an appendix to the last volume of the English edition, and was subsequently published in a distinct form. This the publishers determined to discard, in consequence of the additional cost to the purchaser, which its insertion would occasion; and of their conviction, that notwithstanding its intrinsic value to a few, and the high character of its author—Dr. Forbes—it would be considered wanting in interest and importance to the many on this side of the Atlantic, who will seek the work as a guide to Practical Medicine. ROBLEY DUNGLISON.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21197040_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
