Elements of medicine : a compendious view of pathology and therapeutics, or the history and treatment of diseases / by Samuel Henry Dickson.

  • Dickson, Samuel Henry, 1798-1872.
Date:
1855
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Credit: Elements of medicine : a compendious view of pathology and therapeutics, or the history and treatment of diseases / by Samuel Henry Dickson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. A book should be judged and appreciated with some direct reference to its declared purpose. The present volume is intended as an aid to young men who have engaged in the study of medicine, to physicians who have recently assumed the responsibilities of prac- tice, and to my fellow-professors of the institutes of medicine, and private instructors, who have felt the difficulty of communicating to the first two classes the knowledge which they are earnestly seeking to acquire. Having been a teacher of medicine for thirty years, and a student more than forty, I must have accumulated some experience in both characters. I have prepared and printed for those in attendance on my lectures, many successive manuals or text-books; I have also written and published several volumes upon medical subjects in general. The first I have endeavored to improve, edition after edition, to render them more available and useful to those in whose hands they were placed. Of the latter, some of which have been favorably received, I have endeavored to learn and avoid the defects, to the best of my ability. The following pages are the result of a careful colla- tion of what has been esteemed most valuable in both, with such matter as continued study and enlarged experience have enabled me to add. May I hope that they will not be altogether unworthy the approbation of my professional brethren ! It was necessary that the book should be as compendious as pos- sible, or it would not have been acceptable to the student, upon whose time there are sd many claims; it was also necessary that it should be written in the simplest and plainest style, that it might not be unadapted to the wants of those whose preliminary education has been hurried and