A treatise on derangements of the liver, internal organs, and nervous system / by James Johnson.

  • Johnson, James, 1777-1845.
Date:
1826
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Credit: A treatise on derangements of the liver, internal organs, and nervous system / by James Johnson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    son's Treatise on the Liver, Internal Organs, and Nerv- ous System. The writer of the following volume already possesses a strong claim upon the approbation and esteem of the Pro- fessional Public, by his late work on the * Influence of Tropi- cal Climates on European Constitutions.' In the fourth section [of the present work] our author enters first on the consideration of Hepatitis, of the symptoms of which he traces all the occasional irregularities with so masterly a hand, that, though his treatment be regulated, it is by no means common, and is entitled to a serious atten- tion. The second part of the work relates to the preservation of health, or the prevention of disease; and is conducted in a most interesting and satisfactory manner.—London Medical and Physical Journal, for March, 1818. We have very little room left, and yet we are very un- willing to allow another Number to be published without noticing the work before us, and recommending it to the attention of our readers, to whom Dr. Johnson is probably already well known as an intelligent observer and spirited writer. Hygeia, or the Conservation of Health and Prolongation of Life, next engages our Author's attention, and is illustrated by many excellent observations.—Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal for April, 1818. We do not hesitate to declare, that while Dr. Johnson's other Work supersedes the necessity of the Indian Practi- tioner reading any other of the kind, the present contains all the fundamental points of that sound pathology, which now gives such splendour to the practice of medicine. Like Dr. Armstrong, he analyses diseases, regards each as a chain of effects, and, where no specific cause and remedy can be