The therapeutics of gynecology and obstetrics : comprising the medical, dietetic, and hygienic treatment of diseases of women.

  • Atkinson, William B. (William Biddle), 1832-1909.
Date:
1881
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The therapeutics of gynecology and obstetrics : comprising the medical, dietetic, and hygienic treatment of diseases of women. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

    13/600
    EDITOR'S PREFACE TO THE IFT^ST ZEHDITIOlrT In compliance with the wish of the publisher, the editor of the present volume has carefully reviewed the material prepared for it, and has added extensively from recent treatises, mono- graphs and journals, containing matter on the two specialties represented. The great activity which has been manifested of recent years in these branches, particularly that of Gynecology, renders it almost impossible for a physician who has to attend to a large general practice to follow the rapid advance in therapeutic methods which has taken place. This work is designed to pre- sent him all of these which are worth his attention ; great care has been exercised that nothing of ascertained value should be omitted ; and the editor believes that very few omissions of this character will be found. In accordance with the plan preferred by the publisher, pre- cise directions in the plans of treatment have been preserved, and the exact formulae presented whenever these could be obtained. Undoubtedly, in some instances, the therapeutic vagueness which is fashionable in many books on practice at the present day, is largely chargeable with the distrust of remedial measures often encountered among medical men. It has been deemed best to preface each chapter with a Syn- opsis of Diagnostic Points, setting forth, in brief but clear forms, the distinctive signs and symptoms between the diseases consid- ered in the chapter. This permits the etiological plans of treat- ment to be presented more distinctly, and may also serve as a reminder in cases of puzzling similarity.