A manual of examination of the eyes / by E. Landolt ; translated by Swan M. Burnett ; revised and enlarged by the author.

  • Landolt, E. (Edmond), 1846-1926.
Date:
1879
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    DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; COMPARATIVE SEMEIOLOOY OF THE MORE IMPORTANT DISEASES. ^lss£s;a?i« Physician to the Westminster Hospital, London. A.merleart Edition, >vitli Extensive jVdclitlons. One Volume, Sto., pp. 20j. Printed on Iiiin<lsomo tintea paper; bound in KngUsli pebbled clotli, with beveled bonrds. Trice $2.00. Dit. Hall's work has received the highest encomiums from the English medical press, for Its lucid arrangement, completeness and accuracy. He himself is known in London as a practitioner of great skill, and an unusually successful medical teacher. Most of the diseases which may be confounded arc presented in comparative tables, setting forth their distinctive characteristics in the clearest possible light, and thus greatly faoilitatlng their prompt diagnosis. The First Part contains, among other matters— The Symptoms of the Febrile State Defined. Comparative Table of the Temperature and Pulse in the Leading Febrile Diseases. Differences between Symptomatic and Essential Fever. Tabular Comparison of Eotheln, Scarlet Fever, Measles and Smallpox. Comparison of the Symp- toms of Typhoid and Typhus; of Typhoid and Malarial Fever; of Typho^^d and Typho-Malarial ; of Typhoid Fever and the Typhoid State; of Typhoid and Relapsing Fever. Diagnosis between Epidemic and Sporadic Cerebro-spinal Meningitis; between Epidemic Meningitis and Typhus; between the same and Congestive Malarial Fever. The Signs of the Arthritic, the Scrofulous, the Syphilitic, and the Tubercular Dyaorasiaj. Gout. Rheumatism, and their Allies. The Second Part includes the Diagnosis of Local Diseases : embracing, for example— The Differential Points between Hemorrhage, Thrombosis and Embolism in the Brain; between the various lorms of Sclerosis, Syphilosis, Paralysis and Ataxy of the Spinal Cord ; and between Organic, Functional, Toxic and Hysterical Paralysis. These extremely dlfiScult problems in diag- nosis are set forth with the utmost clearness. Neuralgia and its Counterfeits. Diagnostic Table of Acute, Chronic, Syphilitic and Tubercular Laryngitis, Perichondritis, Benign and Malignant Growths, and Neuroses of the Larynx. Distinctions between Inflammatory 'Croup and Spasmodic Croup, on the one hand, and Membranous Croup and Diphtheria, on the other. ■Catarrhal as Distinct from Parenchymatous Tonsillitis. Normal and Abnormal Chest Sounds (in all, eleven very carefully prepared tables). Dr. John Hughes Bennett's General Rules for Diagnosing Heart and Lung Affections. Comparison of the Three Forms of Phthisis. The Diagnosis of Incipient Phthisis (sixteen different signs are given of ■Its very earliest stage). Diflerentlal Diagnosis between Incipient Phthisis and Bronchitis; between Acute Phthisis and Typhoid Fever ; between Capillary Bronchitis and Pneumonia; between Pneu- monia and Pleurisy, etc. Dr. Dobell's Aphorisms on Pain at and near the Heart, etc. The Various Cardiac, Aortic and Mitral Diseases. To Distinguish Acidity of the Stomach from Fermentation and from Hypersecretion ; Stom- ■achal Vertigo from Cerebral Vertigo; Gastric Vomiting from Cerebral Vomiting. Comparative Symptoms of Atonic Dyspepsia, Chronic Gastritis, Gastric Ulcer and Gastric Cancer. Special Points in the Diagnosis of Gastric Cancer. Abdominal Phthisis as Distinguished from Typhoid Fever. The Diagnosis of Hepatic Diseases. Hardy'sHandy Teats for Bile in the Urine. What Pain In the Liver may Signify. What Jaundice may Signify. Hepatic Diseases Classified with Regard to the Size of the Liver. The Seven Forms of Bright's Disease Compared. The Four Forms of Dia- betes Compared. The Kinds of Calculi and their Tests, etc. OFINIO]SrS OF XHK PRKSS. The British MedicalJournal, says: .This is not of the type of books brought out by 'grinders.' The tables it contains are invaluable aids by the bedside, enabling the student and prac- .tltion»'r readily to compare signs met with in disease. The North Carolina MedicalJournal,Bays: The tabular method of comparing symptoms is •well utilized. Very many valuable diagnostic formula; are brought together. The Atlanta Medical Journal, says : The comparative symptoms are given in a very satisfac- dory manner. The work will allbrd valuable aid to practitioners. The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, March 6, 1877, says: The physical signs and the symptoms of the various affections are arranged in tabular form tor convenient reference, and the facilicy thus afforded for comparison and discrimination enables this manual to sujiply a want often vexperlenccd in more elaborate treatises. The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal says : The plan of the work wo regard as highly commendable for its convenience of reference and the precision of which it is capable.