Hooper's Physician's vade mecum : a manual of the principles and practice of physic : with an outline of general pathology, therapeutics, and hygiene.

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1882
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    , INTEOdUCMON'. ' . . •' •■ vii ' ■ t * . .. ■ the Editors to extend it beyond the limits lisually assigned to a so- called practical treatise. ■ ' % In order to carry out 'these views, this work is divided into two parts of which the first'embrates those facte and general principle's that make up trhe.scienqes of General Pathology and Therapeutics, while the second contains, in a form easy of reference, a description of diseases, their diagnosis and prognosis, rationale and treatment, or what is usually known as tth Theory and Practice of Medicine. The Pirst Part consists of six chapters, under the following titles:—1. Health and Disease; with an account of their varia- tions under the influence of age, sex, temperament, and mode of life, and explanations of the terms in common use for distinguishing diseases, and giving precision to our, views and statements con. ceming them.—2. Causes of Death: in which some idea is given- of the relative frequency and importance of the diseases that prove fatal to human life.—3. Outline of Phi/siolor/y and General Pathology.—In this chapter those facts and theories which bear most directly upon medical practice are briefly stated, more minute details being reserved ibr—4. Examination of some of the more important Symptoms and Signs of Disease, comprising the Urine, the Viscera of the Abdomen and of the Chest, the Pulse and the_ Kespiration. Chapter 5 treats of Hygiene, private and public • while chapter 6 contains An Outline of General Therapeutics, as they bear on the preservation and improvement of health and the treatment of disease, with an account of the principal remedies, and their mode of operation ; witli a short section on nursing. The Second Part, or Practice of Medicine, properly so called, is also_distributed into chapters, as follows:—]. States of System,'as distinguished from diseases properly so called. —2. LocalDiseascs affecting all or several of the organs or .textures of the body.—3.' Febrile Diseases without essential local complication.—4. Febrile Diseases with essential local complication.—5. Febrile Diseases arising from local causes.—6. General Diseases (not febrile), witli essential local complications. The remainder of the diseases are distnbuted into ten chapters, as follows:—!. Diseases of the Nervous System.—2. Diseases of the Organs of Circulation —3 Diseases ot the Organs of Respiration.—4. Diseases of the Or-ans of Digestion and Abdominal Viscera.—5. Diseases of the Urinary Organs.-6. Diseases of the Organs of Generation.-?. Diseases of the Organs of Sense.—8. Diseases of the Skin and its Appendao-es —9. Parasitic Animals; and 10. Poisons, with the Antidotes to Itie principal poisons. An extensive collection of Formnlffi, preceded by classified lists of the preparations of the British l^harmacopccia, with their doses, 13 added; and glossarial and general indexes complete the volume