Compend of the practice of medicine; Including a very complete section on skin diseases and a new section on mental diseases

Front matter

HUGHES’

COMPEND OF PRACTICE.

FIFTH PHYSICIANS’ EDITION.

Preface To Fifth Edition

The steady demand for the Compend of Medicine is practical evidence of its usefulness and has stimulated the author to make the fifth edition the most complete of any like book. It was not the original intention that it should in any way replace any of the text-books upon the Practice of Medicine. It was written as a compend for the aid of the student, to be used in connection with a larger treatise. The book has however somewhat outgrown the original plan and I find a large number of Physicians use it. I have endeavored to make it more useful to them without affecting the arrangement which has made it so popular with the student. In the fifth edition the entire book has been thoroughly revised and the recent disin the principles and practice of Medicine incorporated There has also been added a section on mental diseases, a subject daily forcingits importance upon the general practitioner. No medical student’s education should be called complete without some knowledge of insanity, the increase of which is the alarm of the evening of the nineteenth century.

D. E. H.

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Contents

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