A text-book of medicine : for students and practitioners / by Adolf Strümpell.

  • Strümpell, Adolf von, 1853-1925.
Date:
1894
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Credit: A text-book of medicine : for students and practitioners / by Adolf Strümpell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In the work which is now oifered to the public I have made aß attempt to give an account of our preseut knowledge in the field of the special pathology and treatment of internal diseases. This account, although brief, I have endeavored to make as complete as possible in regard to all impor- tant and certainly established facts. While everything hypothetical has been wholly omitted or only briefly referred to, I have tried, on the other hand, not only to enumerate the facts of clinical experience with sufficient accuracy, but also and especially to make the reader comprehend the develop- ment and the internal connection of the different morbid phenomena by constantly referring to the data of general pathological and anatomical research. In regard to treatment, the limits of our knowledge will often be apparent, but I believe that I have paid a sufficient regard to the needs of practice. In order to avoid repetitions, only a small number of complete prescriptions have been inserted in the text, but an abundant and well- arranged formulary has been added as an appendix at the end of the work.* Although in the composition of this text-book I have of course made very great use of the later literature of medicine, still the experienced reader will recognize in not a few places the results of the author's own experience and observation. These results are drawn from more than six years' active work in the medical clinique here, to the abundant material of which I have been fortunate enough to have access as assistant first to C. Wunderlich and then to E. Wagner. Adolf Strümpell. Leipsic, 1 March, 1883. [* Owinw to the differences between our Phannacopceia and practice and those of Germany, it has been thought best to omit this appendix.—Trans.]