A manual of diseases of the nervous.

  • Gowers, William Richard editor, Sir.
Date:
1899
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Credit: A manual of diseases of the nervous. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    This volume contains the first part of an attempt to give an account of diseases of the nervous system, sufficiently concise to he within the compass of the time-pressed student or busy practitioner, and yet adequate in its outline of a subject which has become wide and deep beyond any other part of medicine. Success in both aims can scarcely be more than approximate. Most of the illustrations are printed from blocks prepared from original drawings by phototype processes, and I am in- debted to Messrs. A. and W. Dawson, of the Typographic Etching Company (by whom most of the work has been done) for the care they have taken in the reproduction. The casual reader may perhaps miss subsidiary letters in the illustrations of the lesions of the spinal cord. The omission of these is intentional. A knowledge of the structural topography of the cord is the first requisite in the study of its morbid anatomy, and when this knowledge is gained, the figures will be understood without difficulty. Familiarity with unlettered illustrations facilitates the comprehension of sections of the spinal cord. Queen Anne Street, London August, 1886.