Clinical manual for the study of medical cases / edited by James Finlayson.

Date:
1878
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Credit: Clinical manual for the study of medical cases / edited by James Finlayson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    assistance in this clinical study of the signs and symptoms of disease, by supplying carefully selected data in a condensed form, by submitting accurate methods of investigation, by pointing out probable fallacies, and by directing attention to collateral inquiries or issues which might otherwise be readily overlooked by the inexperienced. If some such assistance could be given, within one volume of convenient size, it seemed also that our teaching at the bedside night be relieved of an enormous mass of detail, which is aj)t at present to interfere with the higher forms of clinical instnic- tion and research; the importance of these elementai’y details is so great that they cannot be omitted, or neglected in any way, in the teaching of large numbers, without disastrous results. In attempting to produce such a volume as is here indicated, it was found expedient to apply to several contributors. Dr. Samson Gemmell has written the portion dealing with Phj'sical Diagnosis: from his official position he was able to make free use of Professor Gairdner’s lectures and teaching on this subject; he has, lilcewise, prepared a short section on the Sphygmogra])!!, to which instrument he has devoted some special attention. In making arrangements for that part of the work which involved the detailed discussion of the symptoms of disease in the various Systems, it soon became evident to the Editor that it would be very desirable to obtain the assistance of experts in Sjiecial departments, if the best results were to be aimed at. Professor Stephenson, accordingly, agreed to deal Avith the important department of Female Disorders; and Dr. Joseph Coats under- took the section on Laryngosco])y and Diseases of the Throat. With the development of the Avork it seemed desirable to add a chapter on Insanity, on account of the gi’OAving importance noAv attached to this branch of medicine, and also on account of the need Avhich students feel of some guide in ajiproaching cases of mental derangement; this portion of the book has been furnished by Dr. Alexander Eobertson. But in the special sections of this AA’ork, thus committed to difierent hands, the Avriters kindly
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