Observations on yaws, and its influence in originating leprosy ; also observations on acute traumatic tetanus, and tetanus infantum / by James Maxwell.

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1839
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    PREFACE. Few diseases have more claims on the attentive con- sideration of the physician than Yaws, yet few have been less explicitly described. So far as I know, there is not a treatise upon this disease to which the junior members of the profession can confidently re- fer to as a guide when they commence practice. The late Dr. James Thomson has left the most original and best monograph on Yaws, in the Edin- burgh Medical and Surgical Journal, with which I am acquainted ; but his observations are too restrict- ed for general utility. To supply a desideratum long required, I have been induced to submit the result of my observations and experience to the public, and this determination has been considerably influenced by the favourable opinion which the Senatus Academicus of the Uni- versity of Edinburgh has expressed in regard to the practical usefulness of such observations, by awarding a Gold Medal for my Inaugural Disserta- tion on this Disease. Medical practitioners in the West Indies have but