The physician's vade-mecum : containing the symptoms, causes, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of diseases : accompanied by a select collection of formulae, and a glossary of terms / by Robert Hooper, M.D. ... ; from the London copy.

  • Hooper, Robert, 1773-1835.
Date:
1809
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Credit: The physician's vade-mecum : containing the symptoms, causes, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of diseases : accompanied by a select collection of formulae, and a glossary of terms / by Robert Hooper, M.D. ... ; from the London copy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. THE following concise account of the several diseases that fall wider the province of the Physician has been committed to the press, with the hope of its proving useful to Students, and those Practitioners in medicine who, from their professional occupations, or other circumstances, may not have it in their power to consult the more voluminous works that have contributed so much to the improvement of medicine. It has been the author's objecl to compress, within a smaller compass than has hitherto been done, consistently with utility, every thing which more especially deserves attention with a view to the treatment of diseases. In pursuing this, he has discarded all theory, and retained only those leading fails which it is absolutely necessary for a Praclitioner to be acquainted with when he approaches the bedside of his patient. He has arranged under distincl heads* * In this arrangement the order of the Cuilenian Nosology is adopt- ed, with the exception of placing Pulmonary Consumption amongst the Cachexia.