A text-book of medicine : for students and practitioners / by Adolf Strümpell.

  • Strümpell, Adolf von, 1853-1925.
Date:
1894
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Credit: A text-book of medicine : for students and practitioners / by Adolf Strümpell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TO THE FIRST AMEEICAN EDITION. This translation was made from the second German edition. After the •work had been sent to the press in May, we learned that a third edition of the volume on nervous diseases had appeared in Germanj^ We therefore recalled our manuscript, and incorporated into it all the changes and addi- tions that had been made in that edition. We have tried to make the translation as exact as possible, but, in a few instances, we have taken the liberty of adding a word or a phrase to make the meaning clearer. With Dr. Shattuck's approval we have added a few foot-notes to the section on nervous diseases, embodying the results of investi- gations made subsequently to the appearance of the original. In regard to the nomenclature of physical signs in diseases of the lungs, we have departed somewhat from the original in order to have our nomen- clature conform to that proposed at the meeting of the American Medical Association in May, 1885, by the late Dr. Austin Flint, chairman of a com- mittee appointed to prepare such a nomenclature at the International Medi- *cal Congress in 1881. This may explain certain unusual terms, such as small rales. We have not attempted to adapt the treatment to the United States Pharmacopoeia. As a rule, when the preparation mentioned was described in Stille and Maisch's National Dispensatory (second edition, 1879), we have made no comment. In other cases we have added the formula of the prepa- ration either in a foot-note or in parenthesis. In a very few cases we have substituted an officinal (U. S. P.) preparation which was almost identical. As the metric system is not yet in active use, we have substituted for it approxi- mate equivalents in the old system. We have considered it needlessly pre- cise, however, to give the exact equivalents in tenths of a degree or hun- dredths of a grain. In every instance we have retained the author's figures in parenthesis, and we have added tables of weights and measures in an appendix. Measures of length have been left in the metric system.