Manual of pathology. Containing the symptoms, diagnosis, and morbid characters of diseases, together with an exposition of the different methods of examination applicable to affections of the organs contained within the head, chest, and abdomen / Translated, with alterations and additions, by Jones Quain.

Louis Martinet

Date:: 1835

Credit: Manual of pathology. Containing the symptoms, diagnosis, and morbid characters of diseases, together with an exposition of the different methods of examination applicable to affections of the organs contained within the head, chest, and abdomen / Translated, with alterations and additions, by Jones Quain. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[ have availed myself of the works of Willan and Bateman, as well as the more recent publi- cations of Mr. Plumbe and M. Kayer. The section on Fever has been added for similar reasons. The different parts thus added to the English edition will be found included within brackets, [ ], and also enumerated in the table of contents. The proper object of pathology is—the knowledge of the alterations induced by disease in the organs and textures of which the system is composed. This knowledge, however, be- comes useful in the diagnosis and treatment of disease, only when we are enabled to group round each form of organic lesion the symp- toms which accompanied and characterized it during life, and to connect the symptoms and the lesion in such a way as that they should

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