A manual of medical diagnosis / by A.W. Barclay.

  • Barclay, A. W., 1817-1884.
Date:
1857
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Credit: A manual of medical diagnosis / by A.W. Barclay. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    corrected the opinion that had been formed. During the period that I held the office, more than twelve thousand patients came under my notice, and the con- struction of a new register of disease, classified on the plan adopted in this volume, led to a moi’e earnest attention to methods of diagnosis. In offering to those now engaged in study the observations here embodied, I have only committed to writing the system of investigation which it became my habit to pursue : and if it lead them to a more familiar acquaintance with disease, and a better under- standing of treatment, my time will not have been misspent. I have endeavoured to arrange in a larger type the general and more impoi’tant considerations on which diagnosis is based, elaborating the details, and enumerating the points of less importance in type of a smaller size. It seemed desirable that my younger readei’s should not in the first instance be perplexed by the number and variety of symptoms, while at the same time they should be furnished with all par- ticulars on any subject which they wished to study more closely. I cannot attempt to trace back to their source all the suggestions received from the writings of othei’s, and from oral instruction, or to separate such sug- gestions from the ideas which have occurred to myself in prosecuting this subject: and I trust that it will be understood that, in omitting all reference to authorities, thei’e is no intention on my part either to claim the merit of originality or to appropriate unacknowledged