Lectures On Childrens Diseases Vol 1

Author : E. Henoch
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ISBN 13 : 9781331086482
Total Pages : 516 pages
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Download or read book Lectures on Children's Diseases, Vol. 1 written by E. Henoch and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lectures on Children's Diseases, Vol. 1: A Handbook for Practitioners and Students This treatise contains almost exclusively the results of experience, gathered during thirty-seven years of practice including almost uninterrupted work at the polyclinic, in the department of children's diseases. When in 1872, I was placed in charge of the Children's Wards in the Royal Charite Hospital, I was enabled to an unusual extent to increase the number (already very large) of my observations on all periods of childhood; and also to place these on a firm anatomical foundation, in a way which could not have been done in a polyclinic and private practice. It is only because my material has been so exceptionally large, so carefully observed, and drawn from so many classes of the city population, that I dare claim for this work, based as it is almost entirely on my own experience, the title "Handbook for Practitioners and Students." It stands to reason, however, that the observations of a single physician must even in the most favourable circumstances present some gaps, and that as he grows older and sees more he will always be meeting with new facts which modify the results of his former experience. Therefore it must not be expected that every disease which can possibly occur in a child will be found described or even mentioned here. Moreover, I do not think it right that a work on children's diseases should be burdened with the wearisome repetition of matters which are fully treated of in all books on general and special Pathology and Surgery, and which I am entitled to assume are familiar to my clinical class and still more so to my readers. Only those diseases will furnish the subject-matter of this work which either occur far more commonly in childhood or else, when met with at that period, show certain peculiarities as compared with the same affections in adult life. On this ground I have excluded variola, which is very rarely met with now-a-days. 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.