Clinical manual for the study of medical cases / edited by James Finlayson.

Date:
1878
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Credit: Clinical manual for the study of medical cases / edited by James Finlayson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    subjects in detail. To prevent repetition of the titles, a list of these is given separately after the table of Contents. It has not been thought desirable, as a rule, to cite authorities for the statements in the text. Numerous references to foreign books and to periodical literature would have been required in doing so, and it was feared that these would only confuse many readers. Occasionally a name has been introduced, in special circumstances, for the sake of clearness, and to avoid any mis- takes which might arise from such an omission. In the ab- sence of such citations, care has been taken, in the sections dealing with subjects on the borderland of medicine, to have them revised by those familiar with these departments. Various friends have kindly done this, and their names are omitted here simply to avoid attaching a responsibility to them which mere revision in this way scarcely imposes. In the illustrations the aim has been to supply those which the student is likely to feel the want of in his actual bedside investigations. To keep the volume from being too expensive, no attempt has been made to illustrate those subjects which require colour for their proper representation : it was thought better to omit such altogether. Instruments have likewise been omitted : the reader is supposed to be engaged in using those referred to. The illustrations are partly new and partly bor- rowed from recognised authorities. In particular, acknowledg- ment must be made of those obtained by the Publishers from the valuable work of Dr. Gee, and from the well-known book of my friend Dr. Wm. Roberts. Several have also been copied from Dr. Gairdner's Clinical Medicine. A list, with details of the sources of the illustrations, is given elsewhere. Dr. John Wilson (whose illustrations of the cutaneous parasites arc already well-known to the profession) has supplied several new microscopic drawings of great value. J. F. 351 Bath Crescent, Glasgow, August, 1878.