A compend of the practice of medicine

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SIXTH PHYSICIANS' EDITION.

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COMPEND

BY /

DAN'L E. 'HUGHES, M.D.,

RESIDENT PHYSICIAN, PHILADELPHIA HOSPITAL; PHYSICIAN-IN-CHIEF, INSANI DEPARTMENT, PHILADELPHIA HOSPITAL J LATE DEMONSTRATOR OF CLINICAL MEDICINE IN THE JEFFERSON MEDICAL COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA, ETC., ETC.

SIXTH PHYSICIANS' EDITION.

THOROUGHLY REVISED AND ENLARGED.

INCLUDING A SECTION ON MENTAL DISEASES AND A VERY COM- PLETE SECTION ON SKIN DISEASES.

PHILADELPHIA :

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THIS COMPEND

IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY

THE AUTHOR.

Preface To Sixth Edition

The continued demand for the Compend of Medicine has encouraged the author to make its sixth edition the most complete of any similar book. It was never intended that the Compend should in any way replace the text-books upon the practice of medicine, but, on the contrary, it was written to be an aid to the medical student, at a time when practical demonstrations and ward classes were the exception in the college curriculum. The book has, however, somewhat outgrown the original plan, and having met with considerable favor from physicians, the author has endeavored to make it more useful to the profession without changing the arrangement which has made it so popular with the student, always keeping in mind, however, that it is a compend and not a treatise on medicine. The addition of the section on Mental Diseases has been kindly received, and has justified the statement in the preface to the fifth edition that no medical student's education should be considered as completed without some knowledge of insanity, the increase of which is the alarm of the closing hours of the century.

D. E. H.

Contents

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INTRODUCTION, 9

General Treatment of Fevers, 16