A treatise on diseases of the nose and its accessory cavities.

  • Macdonald, Greville, 1856-1944.
Date:
1892
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Credit: A treatise on diseases of the nose and its accessory cavities. 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.

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    The author's main intention in producing this treatise on Diseases of the Xose has been to familiarise the general practitioner with a subject winch has not hitherto received the attention it deserves. Conse- quently, he has attempted, not so much the production of a text-book, as a record of his own observations and the methods of treatment he has found advisable. It is hoped that by this means the reader will be spared the difficulty of deciding as to which method of diagnosis and treatment will best reward his pains. At the same time the author trusts he has not neglected to render due credit to the pioneers of nasal diagnosis, wherever they are responsible for points of which time and experience have proved the merit. In describing diseases of which the author has had little or no experience, he has endeavoured to place before the reader the opinions of the most trustworthy authorities. The study of Ehinology is the newest in medicine, and very little has yet been effected in comparison with the extent of the field opened for investigation. It is earnestly hoped that while this treatise will prove of assistance to the general practitioner as well as to I