A manual of family medicine for India / by W.J. Moore.

Date:
1874
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Credit: A manual of family medicine for India / by W.J. Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    observed, most of the diseases to which children are subject have received special attention—a feature which it is hoped will render the volume more acceptable to that large and increasing class in India whose duties necessitate the absence of then: famihes from localities in which professional assistance is obtainable. The various engravings illustrating different subjects have been designed with the view of diagrammatic correctness, rather than for artistic effect. Their intro- duction into the volume will, it is beheved, tend to render many things plain, which, notwithstanding the clearest description, might otherwise be obscure to the non-professional reader. The nature of the subjects thus treated does not admit of much variety m illustra- tion by drawings, as generally there is only one right method of treating surgical injuries, which are the principal conditions thus illustrated. Hence the dia- grams must' be more or less similar to those found in other surgical works, and experts may recognise some old friends amongst the woodcuts. Thus the drawings at pages 240, 338, 339, 358, 359 have been adapted from that well-known work. Dr. Druitt's ' Surgeon's Vade Mecum;' those at pages 316, 317, showing the course of the blood-vessels, from Dr. Schaible's ' First Help in Accidents.' The diagrams at page 273 showing the process of teething are slightly altered from Dr. Ewart's edition of ' Goodeve's Management of Children in India ;' while the drawings illustrating the resuscitation of the drowning were supplied