Diseases of children : a short introduction to their study / by James Frederic Goodhart.

  • Goodhart, James Frederic, Sir, 1845-1916.
Date:
1894
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Diseases of children : a short introduction to their study / by James Frederic Goodhart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Many medical students have expressed to me their want of a small Manual upon Diseases of Children. To this, and to a request from Messrs. Churchill that I would fill up a gap in their series of Student’s Guides, the appearance of the present volume is due. There are many who could have done the work far better than I; but, if an excuse be needed for well-intentioned temerity, it may be supposed that others were unabled to undertake it. As regards the scope of the work—in writing a book upon diseases of children I have not consi- dered it my function to write one on general medicine, but so far as possible have kept in view the diseases which seemed to be incidental to childhood, or such points in disease as appear to be so peculiar to, or pronounced in, children as to justify insistance upon them; and if the book meets the want it aims to supply, it will be due, I think, as much to its omissions as to its contents, lor example, in dealing with pneumonia and bronchitis, there will be found no minute descrip-