A practical synopsis of cutaneous diseases : according to the arrangement of Dr. Willan, exhibiting a concise view of the diagnostic symptoms and the method of treatment / by Thomas Bateman.

  • Bateman, Thomas, 1778-1821.
Date:
1817
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    genus and species. Hence it was not calculated, like the more correct system devised by Dr. Willan, to fulfil all the purposes of nosological investigation. There is another circumstance, however, which renders the diseases of the skin equally capable of methodical classification with the other objects of natural history, namely, the facility of representing them by drawings. This was first attempted by Dr. Willan, and the engravings annexed to his work contributed greatly to the elucidation both of the general principles of the classification and nomenclature, and of the forms and progressive changes of various species of cutaneous disease. It was a source of considerable regret and disappointment, therefore, to the profession, that this work, and especially its excellent illustrations, should have been but half completed by its lamented author. Many intimations of this feeling reached me soon after the publication of my Synopsis, in consequence of its acknowledged deficiency in respect to the plates, which should have accompanied the work as completed by the hands of its author. The publication of the whole system in a compendious and accessible form has, however, probably been the means of diffusing a knowledge of it through a much wider field, and thus, I trust, of contributing to extend this part of pathology beyond the limits which it would have reached under the more costly form in which it originally appeared. For I have the satisfaction to state, that within the space of three years four large impressions of the Synopsis have been called for; and that it has been translated into the French and German languages, (into the latter under the direction and with the annotations of the learned Professor Sprengel,) and republished in America. In order, however, to fulfil the wishes of the profession by the completion, as far as it was in my power, of the series of engravings .