A text-book of the Practice of medicine / by James M. Anders.

  • Anders, James M. (James Meschter), 1854-1936.
Date:
1900
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Credit: A text-book of the Practice of medicine / by James M. Anders. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In the second edition of this work, issued less than a year ago, it was found unnecessary to make any important alterations. The present issue, however, is the result of careful and thorough revision. Espe- cially was this deemed necessary as relating to the section on Infectious Diseases—a department in which the advance in our knowledge since the publication of the first edition has been considerable. A few new subjects have been introduced—Glandular Fever, Ether- pneumonia, Splenic Anemia, Meralgia Paraesthetica, and Periodic Paral- ysis. The affections that have been substantially rewritten are: The Plague, Malta Fever, Diseases of the Thymus Gland, the Liver Cir- rhoses, and Progressive Spinal Muscular Atrophy. The following articles have been extensively revised: Typhoid Fever, Yellow Fever, Lobar Pneumonia, Dengue, Tuberculosis, Diabetes Mellitus, Gout, Arthritis Deformans, Autumnal Catarrh, the Diseases of the Circula- tory System, more particularly Hypertrophy and Dilatation of the Heart, Arterio-sclerosis, and Thoracic Aneurysm, Pancreatic Hemor- rhage, Jaundice, Acute Peritonitis, Acute YelloAV Atrophy, Hematoma of the Dura Mater, and Scleroses of the Brain. These extensive changes have given the author an opportunity, of which h^ gladly availed himself, to accomplish in many places an im- proved classification of the practical portion of the matter under appro- priate headings. Scarcely subsidiary to clearness and accuracy of delineation in clinical medicine, to meet the needs of the medical student and busy practitioner, is a systematic and convenient arrange- ment of the diagnostic and therapeutic data. The proper classification of knowledge facilitates its acquisition by the student, and conveys to his mind a clearer and more lasting image. The leading symptoms have been more uniformly italicized—a modification that cannot fail to prove helpful to the medical student. The preliminary chapter in the section on Nervous Diseases is new, and deals with the subject of localization and the various methods of investigating nervous affections ; it has thus been brought into closer harmony with the practical character of similar chapters introductory to other divisions of the book. Dr. Joseph Sailer rendered efficient aid in the revision of Part VIII., Diseases of the Nervous System.