A manual of diseases of the ear, for the use of students and practitioners of medicine / by Albert H. Buck.

  • Buck, Albert H. (Albert Henry), 1842-1922.
Date:
1889
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Credit: A manual of diseases of the ear, for the use of students and practitioners of medicine / by Albert H. Buck. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    PREFACE. OIXCE the publication of my work entitled Diagnosis and ^ Treatment of Ear Diseases,' in 1880, I have been led. by further experience, to modify the views therein expressed and the methods of treatment there advocated, in some important respects. The present time seemed therefore favorable for thoroughly re- vising the text and publishing it in a form adapted to the use as well of medical students as of practitioners of medicine. The manual now offered to the profession is the outcome of this effort. While a few chapters have been altered very little, others have been entirely rewritten, and considerable new matter has been added. The illustrations are also, in the majority of in- stances, different from those introduced in the earlier work. General pictures of disease, based upon the features which characterize a large proportion of the cases of any given type, are often so ideal, and therefore so untrue to nature, as to almost mislead the student. In the present manual, therefore, as in the earlier treatise, I have made liberal use of my case-books for sup- plying brief descriptions of actual instances observed in practice. Where the treatment adopted in some of these reported cases differs essentially from that advocated in the larger text, the stu- dent must always foUow the latter in preference to the former. In fact, in not a few instances, the results obtained furnish the best evidence of the faultiness of the treatment employed. Such exceptional cases, however, if judicially observed throughout then* course, do more to educate an unfettered medical mind in the direction of sound therapeutics than do scores of those which terminate favorably. New York, March 8th, 1889.