Physical diagnosis : a guide to methods of clinical investigation / by G.A. Gibson and William Russell.

  • Gibson, George Alexander, 1854-1913.
Date:
1890
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Credit: Physical diagnosis : a guide to methods of clinical investigation / by G.A. Gibson and William Russell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    PREFACE. In the following work are embodied the results of several years' experience in teaching methods of clinical investigation. We have limited ourselves almost entirely to the considera- tion of physical examination, as this is the department of practical medicine in which students require most assistance. While we have no desire to avoid our united respon- sibility for this work, it is right to indicate the portions for which we individually must be held to be chiefly respon- sible. The sections devoted to the Integumentary, Urinary, and Nervous Systems, together with the Examination of the Pulse, are by Dr. Gibson; the Circulatory, Eespiratory, and Alimentary Systems are by Dr. Russell. No attempt has been made, except in a few instances, where the original writings will be found to be of special use, to acknowledge the various sources from which we have derived our knowledge of physical diagnosis. To do so fuUy would be practically impossible, as it would not only entail an enumeration of most of the works dealing with the subject from the time of Laennec to the present, but also render it necessary to estimate the influence of inter- course with many minds, as teachers, pupils, and friends.