Practical medicine, with a sketch of physiology and therapeutics : being the fourth edition of Meade's manual for students / by Alexander Silver.

Date:
1874
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Credit: Practical medicine, with a sketch of physiology and therapeutics : being the fourth edition of Meade's manual for students / by Alexander Silver. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    PREFACE. When asked by Mr. Renshaw to undertake a new Edition of Meade's Manual for Students, it seemed to me that something might be made of the materials at my disposal, by adopting the old grouping of Physiology, Pathology (used in the wide sense), and Therapeutics. Proceeding on this plan, the work grew in its second division out of all proportion to the rest, so that this has become the chief feature of the book, whilst of the old matter all that remains are some passages in the part on Physiology. It is therefore as a book on the Practice of Medicine that this work must be judged, the other parts arc mere sketches, though it is hoped useful ones. As the book is primarily intended for students, it has been my desire to make it as compact and clear as possible, and to eschew that which is still doubtful for what is not. Of course such a work cannot in any way pretend to be exhaustive; it is enough if it is fairly accurate as far as it goes, and this I trust it will be found to be. Under the various diseases the conventional divisions into diagnosis, prognosis, &c, have been purposely avoided; for as each section is short, it has been my aim to make if a sketch of the disease as a whole, leaving the details to lie filled in l>y subsequent study. The only distinct heading uniformly preserved is that of Treatment, and here the great object has been to tell the student what to do, as clearly aud simply as possible, without confusing his mind by Conflicts Of opinion, which are but a poor substitute for (lie knowledge of what to do. and what to leave undone, in the management of Disease.