Lectures on the principles and practice of physic; delivered at King's College, London / by Thomas Watson.

  • Watson, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1882.
Date:
1847
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Credit: Lectures on the principles and practice of physic; delivered at King's College, London / by Thomas Watson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE BY THE EDITOR. The very full and accurate exposition presented by Dr. Watson of the present state of pathology and therapeutics, in reference to nearly all of the diseases embraced in these Lectures, has rendered it unnecessary to augment materially the size of the work by the addition of frequent and extended notes. In regard, however, to a few of the forms of disease more particularly interesting to the American physician, the account given by the Author will be found somewhat defective, while he has omitted to notice one or two affections endemic in the United States, his lectures being chiefly confined to a consideration of the diseases most prevalent in Great Britain. It is to remedy these deficiencies that the Editor, in pre¬ paring the present edition, has mainly directed his attention. In the notes he has added to Dr. Watson’s lectures on diarrhoea and dysentery, he has endeavoured to fill up the very brief sketch presented in the text, of the chronic forms of those diseases; he has attempted, also, to supply, in part, the omissions of the Author, by his notes on the history, pathology and treatment of typhoid pneumonia, remittent fever, &c. The intrinsic merits of Dr. Watson’s Lectures are sufficient to ensure for them a favourable reception. If, by the few notes he has been induced to append to the present edition, the Editor has succeeded in adding in some slight degree to their value, he will be amply repaid for his labour. Philadelphia, September, 1845. In passing through the press a new edition of Dr. Watson’s Lectures, the Editor has only to remark that he has corrected some few errors which escaped attention in the last, while he has added some additional notes where the subject appeared to require them. Philadelphia, August, 1847.