Case histories in pediatrics : a collection of histories of actual patients selected to illustrate the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of the diseases of infancy and childhood, with an introductory section on the normal development and physical examination of infants and children / by John Lovett Morse.

  • Morse, John Lovett, 1865-1940.
Date:
1913
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Credit: Case histories in pediatrics : a collection of histories of actual patients selected to illustrate the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of the diseases of infancy and childhood, with an introductory section on the normal development and physical examination of infants and children / by John Lovett Morse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION The number of case histories has been doubled in this edition in order to cover the subject of Pediatrics more fully. An intro¬ ductory section on the Normal Development and Physical Exam¬ ination of Infants and Children has been added, because it was believed that the readers would be able to study and analyze the cases better, if they were familiar with the normal development and methods of examination. Several reviewers of the first edition found fault because the diagnosis was not given at the head of each case, not realizing, apparently, that it was omitted in order that the reader might study it out for himself. The main object of the book is to present a series of problems to be solved by the reader. This object would be defeated, if the diagnosis was given in the beginning. Several reviewers have complained that there was nothing to show whether or not the diagnoses and prognoses were correct. It never occurred to the writer that any one would sup¬ pose that they were not. Consequently, nothing was said about it. As a matter of fact, the diagnoses are correct in every instance in which a positive diagnosis is made. In a few, in which a prob¬ able diagnosis only is made, the children are still alive. The prog¬ noses are all absolutely correct, except in a few chronic cases in which, the children being still alive, it is impossible to give exact data as to the duration of life. The treatment recommended in the text was that actually employed.