Pleurisy : including empyema and bronchiectatic conditions / by Alex. James.

Date:
1911
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Credit: Pleurisy : including empyema and bronchiectatic conditions / by Alex. James. 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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    PREFACE In this book on the etiology, symptomatology, and treatment of Pleurisy, I have endeavoured to put into words a number of the ideas on the subject which I have been led to form during an experience of some thirty years of hospital and private practice, and a like period of systematic and clinical teaching in medicine. These ideas I have striven to describe as a series of pictures of the disease, in the various manifestations in which it has from time to time presented itself to me. It may be at once remarked that any reader who considers full references to medical literature essential in a medical book need not read further, for it has been no part of my object to attempt a narration of all that has been placed on record on this subject during those years. Rather has it been my endeavour to hand on the broad general truths regarding this disease which the generation to which I belong has inherited, along with what little in the way of explanation, illustration, and augmentation my experience and reading seem to me to be able to add. That the descriptions fall far short of what they ought to be as regards completeness, I am fully cognisant. That such as they are they may prove to have been efforts made towards approaching the truth, I earnestly hope time will show. Before each individual the addition made by his own