Clinical lectures on diseases of the liver, jaundice and abdominal dropsy / by Charles Murchison.

  • Murchison, Charles, 1830-1879.
Date:
1868
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Credit: Clinical lectures on diseases of the liver, jaundice and abdominal dropsy / by Charles Murchison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. These Lectures were originally delivered to the students of the Middlesex Hospital, and the first four have already, in part, appeared in the pages of the ' Lancet,' It is hoped that theirpublication in the present form may be useful not merely to those for whom they were originally intended, but likewise to other members of the Medical Profession. It is not their object to set forth a complete account of the diseases of which they treat, but rather to pxtt prominently forward the leading characters on which the diagnosis of these diseases mainly depends, and, in particular, to determine the diagnostic import of those signs and symptoms—such as enlargement of the fiver, jaundice, dropsy, and pain—which are com- mon to many different hepatic disorders, but the precise cause of which is too often unrecognized. The original descriptions have in many instances been elucidated by the introduction of diagrammatic representations of physical diagnosis. With the third Lecture has been incorporated a portion of the matter