Handbook of the diseases of the nervous system / by James Ross.

  • Ross, James, 1837-1892.
Date:
1885
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Credit: Handbook of the diseases of the nervous system / by James Ross. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    PREFACE. This Handbook is intended for the use of students, and such of my medical brethren as are so fully occupied in practice that little time is left to them for reading lengthy treatises, and monographs on special subjects. The work is divided into two parts—a general and special neurology. In the former I have endeavored to give a brief outline of the evolution and dissolution of nervous structures and functions, adding a chapter on the general principles of treatment. In approaching a new subject our capacity to master it may be measured by the ease and thoroughness with which the mind assimilates with its previous stock of knowledge the new facts and relations presented to it. The student may, indeed, acquire much information concerning diseases or any other new subject of study without assimilating the new facts, which come under his notice, with well-established principles, but the knowledge thus obtained—if it deserves the name of knowledge—is not properly organized, and will be found to be both fleeting and ill-adapted for guidance in emergencies. Keeping these considerations in view, it has been my endeavor in this part to arrange the anatomical and physio- logical facts, with which the student is already more or less familiar, in such a way that his mind may be prepared readily to comprehend the multiform phenomena of disease, and to associate them witli the funda- mental laws of development. In the special part my great aim has been to make the work thoroughly practical. With this view I have adopted, as far as possible, a clinical classification, so thai the diseases which are most apt to be mistaken for each other will be found described in close proximity, and the reader can thus note the various features which differentiate nervous diseases clinically allied. My rule of