[BOOK][B] The principles and practice of medicine: designed for the use of practitioners and students of medicine

W Osler - 1910 - books.google.com
W Osler
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THE three years that have passed since the last edition have been rich in additions to our
knowledge of disease and its treatment, particularly in connection with the acute infections. I
have incorporated all the more important advances—the long-expected epoch-making
discoveries in syphilis, the work of the New York Pneumonia Commission, the triumph of the
British army and naval surgeons in stamping out Malta fever, the splendid work of Gorgas
and his colleagues at Panama, the studies of Strong and his associates in the Philippine …
THE three years that have passed since the last edition have been rich in additions to our knowledge of disease and its treatment, particularly in connection with the acute infections. I have incorporated all the more important advances—the long-expected epoch-making discoveries in syphilis, the work of the New York Pneumonia Commission, the triumph of the British army and naval surgeons in stamping out Malta fever, the splendid work of Gorgas and his colleagues at Panama, the studies of Strong and his associates in the Philippine Islands, the fresh work which has been done in trypanosomiasis psorosomiasis, tropical splenomegaly, the experiences of the last epidemic of cerebro-spinal fever in New York, Belfast, and Glasgow, with the hopeful work of Flexner at the Rockefeller Institute, the all-important contributions on" carriers" in the acute infections, the results of the Washington Congress with the new views on infection, heredity, diagnosis, and treatment of tuberculosis, the remarkable studies upon epidemic anterior poliomyelitis, and the work upon Rocky Mountain fever, milk sickness, and the serum disease. One cannot but be impressed with the extraordinary rapidity of the progress of our knowledge of the acute infections! The section on parasites has been carefully revised, and has received many additions. In the chapters on the diseases of special organs much new matter has been incorporated-a new section in acute dilation of the stomach, a complete revision of the subject of peptic ulcer in the light of recent surgical work, new sections on diverticulitis, parotitis, pancreatic and adrenal insufficiency, œdema of the lungs, Banti's disease, polycythæmia, etc. In the section upon Diseases of the Nervous System the studies of Marie and his pupils upon aphasia and the new work on spastic paraplegia, Oppenheim's disease, posterior basic meningitis, psychasthenia, etc., have been incorporated. The new points which have come up in treatment have been discussed, particularly the important advances in serum therapy and on the surgical treatment of internal diseases, and I have added a note on the cult of the day
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