Volume 1

A manual of diseases of the nervous system / by W.R. Gowers.

Date:
1886-1888
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A manual of diseases of the nervous system / by W.R. Gowers. 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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    PEEFACE This volume contains the first part of an attempt to give an account of diseases of the nervous system, sufficiently concise to be within the compass of the time-pressed student or busy prac- titioner, and yet adequate in its outhne of a subject which has become wide and deep beyond any other part of medicine. Success in both aims can scarcely be more than approximate. Most of the illustrations are printed from blocks prepared from original drawings by phototype processes, and I am indebted to Messrs. A. and W. Dawson, of the Typographic Etching Com- pany (by whom most of the wox-k has been done) for the care they have taken in the reproduction. The casual reader may perhaps miss subsidiary letters in the illustrations of the lesions of the spinal cord. The omission of these is intentional. A knowledge of the structural topography of the cord is the first requisite in the study of its morbid anatomy, and when this knowledge is gained, the figures will be understood without difficulty. Familiarity with unlettered illus- trations facilitates the comprehension of sections of the spinal cord. By an oversight T have omitted to state that Fig. 84 is copied from Leyden. In addition to the obligations acknowledged in the course of the book, I, have to express my special thanks to Dr. Money for various help, including a perusal of the proof-sheets and the preparation of the index and table of contents. Queen Anne Steeet, London ; August, 1886.