Volume 1

A system of clinical medicine : dealing with the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of disease for students and practitioners / by Thomas D. Savill.

  • Savill, Thomas Dixon, 1856-1910.
Date:
1903-05
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    Each chapter will be divided into three unequal parts. Part A. will treat of the symi)tovis which may indicate disease of the organ or region under discussion, the fallacies incidental to their detection, and an account of the various causes which may give rise to those symptoms. Part B. will treat of the physical signs of disease in that region, and the various methods used to elicit them. Part C, which constitutes the major portion of each chapter, will be prefaced with a clinical classification of the various'maladies affecting that region, and a summary of the routine procedure to be adopted ; and this will be followed by a series of sections dealing with the several diseases, arranged according to their clinical relationships. For example, in Chapter III., on The Heart—Part A. describes and differentiates the various causes of breathlessuess, palpitation, precordial pain, and the other symptoms which may be indicative of heart disease; Part B. describes percussion, auscultation, and the other methods of examining the heart; and Part C. deals seriatim first with acute, and secondly with chronic cardiac disorders, classified and arranged on a clinical basis. Apart from the general plan and arrangement, there are two features special to this work. The first part of each chapter, dealing with symptoms and their causes, forms a SPECIAL feature on which great labour has been expended. FEATURES. ^^^^^ ^^^^ ^.^^ ^^^^^^^ Complete without redun- dance, and to check the various data again and again in the light of experience, has involved an expenditure of time quite out of proportion to the space occupied. These lists will, I trust, be as useful to others as they have been to me in obtaining a clue to diagnosis. Another feature consists of the italicised paragraphs in Part C. which stand at the head of each section which deals with a separate malady. These emphasise the salient features by which a disease may be recognised and differentiated from others belonging to the same clinical group. They are in fact brief clinical definitions, and form, metaphorically speaking,sign-posts or guides in the process of diagnosis. If, after carefully studyhig the lists of symptoms and their causes in Part A., and examnung