A manual of clinical diagnosis by means of microscopical and chemical methods : for students, hospital physicians and practitioners / by Charles E. Simon.

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1904
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Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    It has been the author’s aim to present to students and physicians those facts in clinical chemistry and microscopy which are of practi- cal importance. With the hope of exciting interest in these unjustly neglected subjects, he has not confined himself to bare statements of facts, which must in themselves be dry and uninteresting, but he has attempted to point out the reasons which have led up to the conclusions reached. Chemical and microscopical methods are described in detail, so that the student and practitioner who has not had special training in such manipulations will be enabled to obtain satisfactory results. The subject-matter covers the examination of the blood, the secre- tions of the mouth, the gastric juice, feces, nasal secretion, sputum, urine, transudates, exudates, cystic contents, semen, vaginal dis- charges, and milk. In every case a description of normal material precedes the pathological considerations, which latter in turn are followed by an account of the methods used in examination. A glance at the table of contents will furnish an idea of the various subjects considered under each heading. In conclusion, it is the agreeable duty of the author to express his sincerest thanks to his wife for assistance without which this volume could not have been written, and likewise for those illustra- tions which are original; to Dr. William H. Welch for his kind- ness in placing the former Hygienic Laboratory of the Johns Hopkins Hospital at his disposal during the years 1892 and 1893 ; to Dr. W. Milton Lewis for much valuable aid in the correction of the manuscript and proof-sheets; and to Messrs. Lea Brothers & Co. for the typographical excellence of the work, the extremely satisfactory reproduction of the drawings, and for many acts of courtesy. CHARLES E. SIMON. Baltimore, Md., 1896.
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