Volume 4

A system of medicine / by many writers ; edited by Thomas Clifford Allbutt and Humphry Davy Rolleston.

Date:
1905
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    as tlisplayed by the sigmoidoscope. Among tlie articles to avIucIi considerable additions have been made, that on Crastric Ulcer may be specially mentioned as one which in any circumstances would have commanded attention, but now may be the last memorial ol its distinguished author. This is not the place to do full honour to the memory of Prof. Dre-schfeld ; here it can only be said that in him we lament the death of a colleague whose scientific methods, clinical experience, and large and accurate learning ])laced him in the first rank of contemporary physicians. The section on Diseases of the Peritoneum is prefaced by an account of Shock by Dr. T. (b Prodie. The important subject of Acute Peritonitis, to which Sir F. Treves made such a valuable contribution in the former edition of this System, is now dealt with by Dr. Allchin, and by Dr. F. W. Andrewes, who has given a clear description of the general pathology and bacteriology of the disease. Lastly, an entirely new and more comprehensive article on Subphrenic and other forms of Peritoneal ^Vbscess by Dr. Acland takes the ])lace of the original account of Subphrenic Abscess by the late Dr. Lee I )ickinson. T. C. A. H. D. K.