Clinical medicine : a manual for the use of students and junior practitioners / by Judson S. Bury.

  • Bury, Judson S. (Judson Sykes), 1852-1944.
Date:
1894
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Credit: Clinical medicine : a manual for the use of students and junior practitioners / by Judson S. Bury. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PEEF ACE. The chief aim of the present manual is to assist the student and junior practitioner in the Examination of Medical Cases. For this reason, symptoms and signs are treated of rather than diseases, and much thought and labour have been devoted to the arrangement of symptoms in the order in which they are usually considered in practice. No arrangement can be perfect in this respect, for no two cases are examined in pre- cisely the same way. Nevertheless, it is hoped that the method adopted will impress upon the student the necessity of eliciting facts, and of recording them in a correct and orderly manner, and that it will also be successful in giving him a firm grasp of the subject of Clinical Medicine. A large number of the illustrations are from photographs or drawings of cases under my own care; for others I am indebted to the kindness of some of my colleagues, while the remaining illustrations have been collected from various sources, which in all cases are duly acknowledged. In the preparation of this volume I have received help from Dr. Williamson in the sections relating to the blood, sputum and puncture fluids, and from Dr. Kelynack in those on the pulse and temperature. I am also greatly indebted to my friend and colleague, Dr. Harris, for his kindness in writing the section on Laryngoscopy, and to Dr. Wild for that on skin eruptions; while to my friends Dr. Barlow, Dr. Dixon Mann, and Dr. Steell, I owe thanks for a number of valuable suggestions and corrections.