The practice of medicine

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Preface

A FIFTH Edition of this Work having been demanded, all the time that could be spared from other onerous duties during the last two years has been devoted to rendering it more worthy of the great encouragement hitherto bestowed upon it. Although it can no longer be called a Manual, yet the original plan has been adhered to, of making its pages the medium of as much practical information as the space at my disposal would allow. Especially have I aimed at adopting a style which should be terse, without being obscure ; while the endeavor has also been made to give particular prominence to those points which will aid the practitioner in the discharge of his responsible duties at the bedside.

Without attempting in any degree to deprecate criticism, it is still due to my readers to say how sincerely I trust it may not be thought that too dogmatic a tone has been adopted in the remarks upon the treatment of disease. But twenty years of daily observation have given me great confidence in the strength of the general principles which I have tried to inculcate in the following pages ; and being thus zealously impressed, it is difficult (even were it advisable) to do otherwise than speak positively.

In conclusion, I cannot help expressing a hope that this work may still prove as useful as its many friends have assured me it has hitherto been. In preparing each new edition I have felt my responsibility greatly increase ; but the labor and anxiety have been lessened by bearing in mind Dr. Arnold’s remark, — “ That so long as you humbly learn, so long you may hopefully teach.”

Henrietta Street, Cavendisu Square,

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Part I.— General Diseases. Page

I. Morbid States of the Blood, 17

1. Introduction, 17

2. Hypersemia, 22

3. Anaemia and Chlorosis, 24

4. Leucocythemia, 27

6. Piarhaemia, 29

6. Glucohaemia, 30

7. Uraemia, 34

8. Acholia, 38

9. Ichorhaemia or Pyaemia, 41

10. Thrombosis and Embolism, 46

11. Haematozoa, . 52

II. Scurvy, 63

III. Purpura, 56

IV. Hydrophobia, 57

V. Glanders, 61

VI. Furuncular Inflammations, 63

1. Boils, 63

2. Styes, 64

3. Carbuncles, 64

4. Malignant Vesicle, 65

VII. Hemorrhage, 67

1. Introduction, 67

2. Cerebral Hemorrhage, ........ 70

3. Otorrhagia, 71

4. Epistaxis, 71

5. Stomatorrhagia, 72

6. Haemoptysis, 73

7. Haematemesis, 76

8. Hsematuria, 77

9. Menorrhagia, 78

VIII. Inflammation, .79

IX. Dropsy, 88

X. Carcinoma, 91

1. General Pathology, ......... 91

2. Varieties of Cancer, 98

3. Causes of Cancer, 97

4. Treatment of Cancer, 98

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XI. Tuberculosis, 104

XII. Melanosis,

1. True Melanosis, -qq

2. Spurious Melanosis, H2

XIII. Patty Degeneration, jjg

XIV. Amyloid Degeneration,

XV. Mineral Degeneration, ......... 119

XVI. Broncliocele and Cretinism,

1. Bronchocele or Goitre, 120

2. Cretinism,

1. Bheumatic Pever, 132

2. Chronic Bheumatism, . 13g

XIX. Eheumatoid Arthritis, 139

XX. Obesity,

Part Ii.— Fevers

I. Continued Pever, 149

1. Simple Continued Pever, 149

2. Typhus Pever, 161

3. Typhoid, Enteric, or Pythogenic Pever, . ^ . . . 160

4. Relapsing or Famine Fever, • 164

II. Intermittent Pever or Ague, 165

III. Remittent Pever, 169

1. Remittent Pever, 169

2. Yellow Pever, 171

IV. Eruptive Fevers, 174

1. Variola or Small-pox, . . . . . ... . 175

2. Vaccinia or Cow-pox, 179

3. Varicella or Chicken-pox, 182

4. Morbilli or Measles, 182

6. Scarlet Pever, 184

6. Erysipelas, 189

7. Plague, 191