Diseases of the larynx / by Dr. J. Gottstein ... trans. and added to by P. M'Bride.

  • Gottstein, Jacob, 1832-1895.
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[1883]
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Credit: Diseases of the larynx / by Dr. J. Gottstein ... trans. and added to by P. M'Bride. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. I feel that the translation of this work needs no apology, and that if it be not appreciated the fault must lie not with the author, but the translator. I have endeavoured to translate as much as possible verbatim, and at the same time to use readable English, but a high style of com- position cannot be attained in a translation without a sacrifice of accuracy. There are, of course, faults in the original work, but they are slight (the most noticeable being a tendency towards repetition), but such as they are, they are reproduced in the translation. It would also, perhaps, have been more accurate to class lupus and leprosy as secondary, instead of primary affections. As the German edition appeared in 1883,1 have endeavoured to bring my translation up to date, partly by annotations and partly by the addition of an appendix. The latter also contains a chapter on laryngeal vertigo, which is rewritten from a paper published in the Edinburgh Medical Journal, and contains my own views on the matter, for which, of course, Dr Gottstein is not responsible, and the same, indeed, applies to all my additions. In reducing the doses from the decimal system to grains and ounces, only approximate accuracy has been attempted, and if in this respect any mistakes of importance have occurred, I shall feel grateful to those who point them out, I cannot conclude without expressing my obligation to Dr R. Mackenzie Johnston for his careful revision of the proof sheets. P. M'BRIDE.