Manual of pathology containing the symptoms, diagnosis, and morbid characters of diseases. Together with an exposition of the different methods of examination, applicable to affections of the head, chest, and abdomen ... / translated, with notes and additions, by Jones Quain.

  • Martinet, L. (Louis), 1795-1875.
Date:
1826
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Credit: Manual of pathology containing the symptoms, diagnosis, and morbid characters of diseases. Together with an exposition of the different methods of examination, applicable to affections of the head, chest, and abdomen ... / translated, with notes and additions, by Jones Quain. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. r„B first part of this work, which is in- tended as a Clinical Guide, contains a brief statement of the necessary requisites for the proper conduct of clinical pursuits; and a de- tailed account of the improvements which, of late years, have been introduced in the methods of investigating the diseases of the three great cavities of the human body. In the second part, care has been taken to give in a condensed yet complete form, every thing that is necessary to enable the observer to distinguish diseases from each other, and, if necessary, to draw up with precision the history of them ; to this is subjoined an enu- meration of the symptoms of the different af- fections, and the morbid alterations which they induce. The office which the author has for some years filled at the “ Hotel Dieu,” has afforded him abundant opportunities of veri- B