Clinical lectures on diseases of the liver, jaundice and abdominal dropsy / by Charles Murchison ; edited by T. Lauder Brunton ; the section on tropical diseases by Joseph Fayrer.

  • Murchison, Charles, 1830-1879.
Date:
1885
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Credit: Clinical lectures on diseases of the liver, jaundice and abdominal dropsy / by Charles Murchison ; edited by T. Lauder Brunton ; the section on tropical diseases by Joseph Fayrer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE xo SECOND EDITION. As was stated in the first edition, these Lectures have no pretension to be a systematic treatise on Diseases of the Liver. Their'sole object is to assist the student and prac- titioner in the diagnosis and treatment of these maladies. The favourable reception accorded to the first edition encourages me to hope that the work answered the purpose for which it was intended. Five years have now elapsed since the last copy of a large impression was disposed of. The delay in the preparation of this edition has been occasioned by other avocations of a literary and profes- sional character, and by my desire to include the results of the labours of my contemporaries, as well as those of my matured experience derived from hospital and private practice. The Lectures have been in great measure re- written. Of the 96 cases which were published in the first edition 6 have been omitted, and in this edition 90 cases appear for the first time, making a total of 180. Most of these additional cases have been the,subject of clinical remarks, which have been incorporated with the