Volume 1

Elements of the practice of medicine / By Richard Bright, M.D. and Thomas Addison, M.D. ... Vol.I.

Bright, Richard, 1789-1858.

Date:: 1839 [i.e. 1836-1839]

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Credit: Elements of the practice of medicine / By Richard Bright, M.D. and Thomas Addison, M.D. ... Vol.I. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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PREFACE. THE Authors of the present publication, while engaged in their duties as teachers of the Practice of Medicine, have frequently felt the want of a work at once elementary and practical to which they might refer their pupils as a companion and assistant during the period of their studies. It is with a view of supplying to themselves such a book of reference that they undertake to add another to the many elementary works which are already before the public. The plan which they have adopted in the performance of this task, is to endeavour to state, with as much conciseness as is consistent with perspicuity, the history, symptoms, and treatment of each disease as established in their own minds by what they have read as well as what they have seen, introducing so much theory only as 1s indispensable to render the various subjects intelligible to the student, without entering at large