A text-book of medicine : for students and practitioners / by Adolf Strümpell ; translated by permission from the 2nd and 3rd German editions by Herman F. Vickery and Philip Coombs Knapp ; with editorial notes by Frederick C. Shattuck.

  • Adolph Strümpell
Date:
1887
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Credit: A text-book of medicine : for students and practitioners / by Adolf Strümpell ; translated by permission from the 2nd and 3rd German editions by Herman F. Vickery and Philip Coombs Knapp ; with editorial notes by Frederick C. Shattuck. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PKEFAOE TO THE SECOND EDITION. The accompanying second edition of my text-book has undergone many additions and improvements. In the first volume the sections on the {etiology of infectious diseases, especially typhoid fever, cholera, and diphtheria, have been materially enlarged on the basis of the later work of Koch and his pupils. In other chapters, too, many places will be noticed where the author has endeavored to adapt the work to the present standpoint of our latest knowledge. Many of the sections on the treatment of diseases have had fuller statements added to them, so that they may be better adapted to the demands of the medical profession. In the second * volume of the text- book (the volume on nervous diseases), beside many smaller changes, several new sections in regard to the pathology of the nervous system have been added, especially the descriptions of saltatory reflex spasm, alcoholic neuritis, progressive ophthalmoplegia, and catalepsy. To friendly colleagues, who have called my attention to the errors and omissions in the first edition, I offer in this place my heartiest thanks. ' Adolf Strümpell. Leipsic, May ', 1885. \* In the third edition of the volume on nervous diseases, various minor changes have been made, and a chapter has been added on general paralysis oi the insane.—Tkans.]