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

  • Anders, James M. (James Meschter), 1854-1936.
Date:
1902
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    PREFACE. This work is meant to introduce the student to the present state of our knowledge of the practice of medicine in general and of the diagno- sis, differential diagnosis, and treatment of disease in particular. The historic development of the subjects treated has been either briefly given or intendedly omitted, since this scarcely falls within the scope of a prac- tical treatise on medicine. Although the book as a whole is submitted to the critical judgment of a learned profession, it may be pardonable to emphasize, provisionally, a few features pertaining to the mode of treat- ing the separate subjects, or the arrangement of the material under the latter—to indicate some of the more salient lineaments, so to speak, in the general design. Since in medical schools it is taught from a separate chair, the pathology (special) of the individual affections has almost in- variably been taken up before the etiology; from this point the student will find the story of each affection a continuous one. The practitioner, however, must ever aim to associate the clinical symptoms with the morbid lesions. Under special etiology the bacteriology has been prominently men- tioned, since we owe to it the rapid progress that is being made in the study of the causation of disease. The differential diagnosis has in many instances been tabulated—an ear-mark that I confidently believe will be found especially helpful. It may be stated that not less than fifty-six diagnostic tables are scattered throughout the work, and that by far the greater number of these are my own. Such formulae have been introduced into the text, and only such, as a more or less extended experience has shown to be possessed of real thera- peutic importance. Whilst these, and all additional points relating to the treatment of the single affections, may serve as guides, particularly to the beginner, I fully appreciate how often the practising physician is