The student's guide to diseases of children.
- Sir James Goodhart, 1st Baronet
- Date:
- 1886
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The student's guide to diseases of children. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![^Iaxt medical students have expressed to me their want of a small Manual upon Diseases of Children. To this, and to a request from ]\Iessrs. Churchill that I would fill up a gap in their series of Student’s Guides, the appearance of the present volume is due. There are many who could have done the work far better than I; but, if an excuse he needed for well-intentioned temerity, it may be supposed that others were unable to undertake it. As regards the scope of the work—in wilt- ing a book upon diseases of children I have not considered it my function to write one on general medicine, hut so far as possible I have kept in view the diseases which seemed to be incidental to cliildhood, or such jicints in disease as appear to he so peculiar to, or pronounced in, children as to justify insistance upon them; and if the book meets the want it aims to supply, it will ho due, I think, as much to its omissions as to its contents. For example, in dealing with pneumonia and bron-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24990462_0015.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
