Volume 1

The diseases and deformities of the fœtus : an attempt towards a system of antenatal pathology / by J.W. Ballantyne.

  • Ballantyne, J. W. (John William), 1861-1923.
Date:
1892-1895
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    gave me, and tender my thanks to Professor Eussell Simpson for allowing me the free use of his own library and that of the late Sir James Y. Simpson. Chapters VIII. and IX. are occupied with the consideration of schemes of classification and of certain general characteristics of foetal disease, and the rest of the volume is devoted to the study of some of the idiopathic maladies of the unborn infant. General foetal dropsy, a condition which yields in importance only to foetal rickets and ante-natal syphilis, is treated of at some length, and aloug with it is considered the so-called congenital cystic elephantiasis. In the second volume the remaining idiopathic and some of the transmitted morbid states will be dealt with, and in the third volume the consideration of the diseases proper of the foetus will be brought to a conclusion. Beyond this point I dare scarcely look; but the remainder of the work will be occupied with the deformities of the foetus. I may here claim priority for this book, in the sense that it is the first in which the attempt has been made to discuss together and at any length in one work both the diseases and the deformities of the foetus. I must now record my indebtedness to the many medical friends who have so generously placed at ray disposal valuable specimens for examination. My thanks are specially due to Professor A. E. Simpson, Sir William Turner, and Dr Symington, who have not only given me material, but have also aided me by their counsel and by the results of their experience. I have also to thank the following gentlemen for interesting specimens of foetal disease and deformity: Drs A. H. F. Barbour, K T. Brewis, James Carmichael, T. B. Darling, W. N. Elder, G. L. Gulland, Thomas Lawson, D. Menzies, William Paterson, A. T. Sloan, James Smith, B. Stewart, T. J. Thyne, and C. E. Underhill, of Edinburgh; Drs Cowan Guthrie, J. W. Martin, and Eraser Wright, of Leith; and Drs Ballantyne of Dalkeith, Baildon of Southport, Edmondson of St Helens, Freeland of Broxburn, A. A. Martin of South Shields and Miller of Sunderland. The dissection and microscopic investigation of the specimens