Essentials of nervous diseases and insanity : their symptoms and treatment. A manual for students and practitioners / By John C. Shaw ...

  • Shaw, J. C.
Date:
1892
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    SECOND EPmON. HOW TO EXAMINE FOR LIFE INSURANCE. By JOHN M. KEATING, M.D., Medical Director Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co. ; Ex-President of the Association of Life Insurance Medical Directors ; Consulting Physician for Diseases of Women at St. Agnes' Hospital, Phila. ; Gynaecologist to St. Joseph's Hospital, etc. With two large Phototype Illustrations, and a Plate prepared by Dr. McClellau from special Dissections; also, numerous cuts to elucidate the text. Price, in Oloth, ^S.OO. PART I. has been carefully prepared from the best works on physical diagnosis, and is a short and succinct account of the methods used to make examina- tions; a description of the normal condition, and of the earliest evidences of disease. PART II. contains the instructions of twenty-four Life Insurance Companies to their medical examiners. PRESS NOTICES. , This is the most practical manual on this subject that has yet been offered as a guide to the medical examiner for life insurance. The author has had a large experience as a medical director of one of the great life insurance companies, and it would, therefore, naturally be expected that he would deal with, nothing but the useful and indispensable in a work of this kind. Every life insurance examiner should possess this book, even though he may be experienced in this work, for it contains much that is needful in the way of reference that cannot be found grouped elsewhere.—Buffalo Medical and Surgical Journal.^ This unpretentious volume, from the pen of one of our most experienced and conservative life insurance medical directors, is just such a book as the young and inexperienced medical examiner needs. It is not a manual of Medical diagnosis, though founded upon the best works of that description. It contains those sug- gestive hints and recommendations that will be useful to the medical beginner and that can only be furnished by the man of experience.—The American yoiirnal of the Medical Sciences. This is by far the most useful book which has yet appeared on insurance examination, a subject of growing interest and importance. Not the least valu- able portion of the volume is Part IL, which consists of instructions issued to their examining physicians by twenty-four representative companies of this conn- try. As the proofs of these instructions were corrected by the directors of the companies, they form the latest instructions obtainable. If for these alone, the book should be at the right hand of every physician interested in this special branch of medical science.—The Medical News. The volume is replete with information and suggestions, and is a valuable contribution to the literature of the medical department of life underwriters' work. — The Wnited Stales Review {\n=,\\r2ince ]o\xrr\2^.). Naturally, in the prevailing scheme of medical education, special instruction in the peculiar duties of the insurance examiner can have no place; The young physician may be never so good a diagnostician or pathologist, and yet fail, to give satisfaction as a medical examiner. The book before us fills this want.—77^^ University Medical Magazine. Sent post-paid on receipt of price by the publisher, W. B. SAUNDERS,