The practitoner's handbook of treatment, or, The principles of therapeutics / by J. Milner Fothergill.

  • Fothergill, J. Milner (John Milner), 1841-1888.
Date:
1880
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    BY THE SAME AUTHOR Second Edition; re-toritten; with Illustrations, 8vo. 16s. THE HEART AND ITS DISEASES, Mltfj tjjcir treatment; inclutiinci; tijc (Boxxi^ ftmt. Will take its place among the standard works on diseases of the heart.— Edinburgh Medical Journal. A very interesting chapter is that upon the gouty heart. The book is on tho whole the best extant ou the subject.-—New York Medical Record. It is the best as well as the most recent work on the subject in the English language.—Medical Press and Circular. To many an earnest student it will prove a light in darkness ; to many a prac- titioner cast down with a sense of his powerle.ssness to cope with the rout and demoralization of Nature's forces, a present help in time of trouble.—Pkiladeliihia Medical Times. The work throughout is a masterpiece of graphic, lucid writing, full of good, sound teaching, which will be appreciated alike by the practitioner and the student. —Student's Journal. Dr. Fothergill's intention has rather been to present the natural history of heart disease as a series of vivid pictures before the imagination of the reader, and to carry the doctor as a living actor into the scene. For this purpose he has properly chosen to use academic detail, not exhaustively, but as a means to this end, and he has brilliantly succeeded.— Westminster Ecview. The most interesting chapter is undoubtedly that on the gouty heart, a subject which Dr. Fothergill has specially studied, and on which he entertains views such as are likely, we think, to be generally accepted by clinical physicians, although they have not before been stated, so far as we are aware, with the same breadth of view and extended illustration.—British Medical Journal. Dr. Fothergill's remarks on rest, on proper blood nutrition in heart disease, on the treatment of the sequelis of it, and on the actions of special medicine, all indicate that, in studying the pathology of heart disease, he has earnestly kept in view the best means of mitigating suffering and of prolonging life. Secoxd jSTotice.— We commend his book to practitioners of medicine, who will find the great facts of heart disease and its treatment discussed in a way that will deeply interest them. It presents a large, recent, .sensible view of the mauy-sided subject of which it treats, in its clinical, therapeutical, and pathological aspects.—r/te Lancet. The most interesting chapter to us, and one which bears abundant testimony to the ample grasp which Dr. Fothergill has of his subject, is the chapter on treatment of diseases of the heart. Treatment is the best test of a medical author, not only because it i.s the end of all medical knowledge, but also because it is the application of the principles which have guided him throughout the earlier part of his work. It was by his treatment of di.sea.se of the heart that Dr. Fothergill's name first became known; and the chapter is worthy of the reputation which he then gained, and to which he has steadily added. Dr. Fothergill's book will be widely read, and as widely appreciated.—I'hc I'ractitioncr. LOjS'DOIS': H. K. lewis, 136, GOWEE STREET.