The Prophylaxis And Treatment Of Internal Diseases Designed For The Use Of Practitioners And Of Students Of Medicine

Author : F. Forchheimer
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ISBN 13 : 9781330860540
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The Prophylaxis and Treatment of Internal Diseases written by F. Forchheimer and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Prophylaxis and Treatment of Internal Diseases: Designed for the Use of Practitioners and of Advanced Students of Medicine This book has been written for physicians and for advanced students. It embodies the results of thirty years' experience in hospital and private practice, and is only a compilation in so far as it deals with the prophylaxis and treatment of tropical diseases, which are now of great importance, and where my experience has been lacking. In these eases I have consulted and abstracted the literature which I have thought most reliable. Those methods of treatment which have been most serviceable to me are invariably mentioned first, and are followed by other useful methods, and by such as are recommended by accepted authorities. The methods recommended for prophylaxis and therapy are such as can be carried out in private practice, and when for any reason hospital or sanatorium treatment is needed, or when I have had no experience with the therapy recommended by others, the statement is explicitly made. It has been my aim to consider all the modern methods of treatment as they are of the utmost importance. It will be seen, therefore, that much space is devoted to hydrotherapy, gymnastics, exercises, diet, and always with a view to their adaptation to private practice. When this is not possible, such places are named as have seemed to me to be of most value. The diet recommended can be obtained in any American household, and the food values are taken from a table of American foods prepared by Atwater, which is found in the Appendix. It is taken for granted that only the best drugs will be chosen, and those drugs which are prepared in this country can usually be obtained from many reliable sources; I have, therefore, refrained from mentioning the names of manufacturers. Most of those made abroad can be obtained only from one source, so that there is no choice. The dosage is always that which has served me best, and both the metric and English systems of measures and weights are given as the metric system is official and the English the one in most common use. Whenever it is necessary, either because a remedy should be given in a certain way or because a combination of remedies has stood the test of long experience, a prescription is added. 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.