A treatise on the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the chest : diseases of the lung and windpipe / by William Stokes.

  • Stokes, William, 1804-1878.
Date:
1844
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Credit: A treatise on the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the chest : diseases of the lung and windpipe / by William Stokes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    PREFACE BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR, In this edition of Dr. Stokes's Treatise, the text of the original is, with a single exception, given entire; and it is, also, uninterrupted by notes or commentaries in the body of the page. The exception is in the section on Cancer, which now presents a matured and more complete view of the subject, as it has been set forth by the author himself, in a paper in the Dublin Journal of Medical Science. This has been substituted for the meagre and avowedly quite im- perfect sketch contained in the first edition. The additions by the Editor consist of an Introduction, an Appendix and numerous Notes,intended to enforce and amplify, but always in a practical spirit, the different positions advanced by the Author on the subjects of morbid structure, diagnosis, and treatment. By the aid of the Introduction and Appendix, the reader is placed in possession of an elementary knowledge of aus- cultation and percussion, and the various views held, just now, on the philosophy of the former of these two means of physical diagno- sis. It would have been easy for the Editor to give his description and narrative in a still more condensed form, without reference to authors or conflicting opinions ; but accuracy would, in this way, have been sacrificed to unity,and a wrong impression left on the mind of the student, who might be led to believe that all had been reduced to positive demonstration, had become a mere affair of physics, when, in reality, much remains unsettled. Considerable additions,by notes, will be found on the treatment of bronchitis; the morbid anatomy of dilatation of the bronchial tubes; dry catarrh —asthma; treat- ment of chronic laryngitis; pneumonia of children, — its pjthology