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Excerpt from The Treatment of Disease: A Manual of Practical Medicine Twenty-five years' experience in teaching more than eleven thousand medical graduates has impressed upon the author that the practitioner desires especially the latest views upon questions of diagnosis and methods of treatment. Under the influence of Post Graduate Schools the medical student is more thoroughly grounded in diagnosis, and particularly in physical diagnosis, than formerly. There still remains an anxious endeavor on the part of the physician to increase his knowledge of therapeutics, whether physical, medicinal or dietetic, which goes to make up What may be termed, the management of a patient suffering from disease. While Etiology is important, pathology is interesting, and a soimd basis for scientific medicine, and diagnosis is absolutely essential, it is from a thorough and broad knowledge of therapeutics in its larger sense that the practitioner will achieve his greatest success and win his most enduring reputation among his patients and the public at large. The therapeutic awakening which is now being experienced shows that more to-day, than ever before, is expected of the clinician. With the practical needs of the physician always in View, this book has been written. This edition represents careful and thorough re vision Of its predecessor with substantial additions, including the more re cent methods Oi diagnosis, and especially the therapeutic resources at the command of the practitioner. F orty-three sections devoted to as many dis eases have been added. These are: Brill's Disease, Posterior Basal Menin gitis, Erythema Infectiosum, Carbon Monoxide Poisoning, Catarrhal Stoma titis, Riga's Disease, Baelz's Disease, Vincent's Angina, Chronic Catarrhal Pharyngitis, Chronic Tonsillitis, Ulcer of the (esophagus, Diarrhoea Chylosa, Stercoral Ulcer of the Intestine, Chronic Universal Perihepatitis, Pigmentary Cirrhosis of Haematochromatosis, Hypertrophic Biliary Cirrhosis of the Liver, Obstructive Biliary Jaundice, Chronic Catarrhal Cholecystitis, Pancreatic Haemorrhage, Diseases of Parathyroid Glands, Infantilism, Neoplasms of the Pituitary Gland, Progeria, Syphilis of the Myocardium, Acute Aortitis, Anomalies of the Aorta including Coarctation and Hypoplasia, Syphilitic Laryngitis, Chylothorax, Acute Cystitis, Chronic Cystitis, Neoplasms of the Bladder, Stone in the Bladder, N euroses of the Bladder, Neuromata, Herpes Zoster, Psychasthenia, Intermittent Claudication, Milroy's Disease, Amau rotic Family Idiocy, Fragilitas Ossium, and Achondroplasia. Besides these. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
