On disorders of the cerebral circulation : and on the connection between affections of the brain and diseases of the heart / By George Burrows.

  • Burrows, George, Sir, 1801-1887.
Date:
1846
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Credit: On disorders of the cerebral circulation : and on the connection between affections of the brain and diseases of the heart / By George Burrows. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Encouraged by such authorities, it appeared more advisable, instead of publishmg the second series of lectures isolated from the first, to revise both series, and submit them, as a connected whole, to the consideration of the medical profession. Although the following physiological, pathological, and practical essays were delivered in the form of lec- tures, it must be mentioned that the audience to whom they were addressed was composed of persons well versed in the different subjects discussed, and hence all elementary matter was avoided as much as possible. Hach subject was touched upon only in reference to those parts of it where the author supposed he had some novelty to communicate, or where he thought there were erroneous opinions to be combated, or where he hoped to be able to offer suggestions which might lead to the more successful treatment of the diseases into the history of which he had entered. The circumstances just alluded to will account for an unavoidable incompleteness in treating the topics which form the subjects of several sections. But as the original courses of lectures were not designed for