The practice of medicine and surgery : applied to the diseases and accidents incident to women / by W. H. Byford ... and Henry T. Byford.

  • Byford, William Heath, 1817-1890.
Date:
1888
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    HEMMETER. Diseases of the Stomach COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS. THEIR SPECIAL PATHOLOGY, DIAGNOSIS, AND TREATMENT. With ScCtionS on Anatomy, Dietetics, Surgery of Stomach, etc. By John C. Hem- meter, M.D., PHiLOS.D., Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Baltimore Medical College, Consultant to the Maryland General Hospital, etc. With Colored and other Illustrations, many of which are original and have been specially prepared for this volume. Octavo, 778 pages. Cloth, |6.00; Leather, ^7.00; Half Russia, ^8.00 *^* This work has been prepared with great care and forms the only com- plete practical text-book in the English language. The author brings to his own large experience a vast knowledge of the literature of the subject. His chief effort has been to furnish the general practitioner with a work from which he can readily acquaint himself with all that has been done in this important branch of medicine, to fit himself to make examinations, to take advantage of new methods of diagnosis, and to treat this very difficult class of diseases rationally and successfully. The illustrations have been selected and engraved with great care. A num- ber of them are original; these have been drawn by the author or prepared by an artist under his immediate directions, and will, we believe, prove most satisfactory. The appearance of a work by an American author arouses an interest rather more than patriotic, an interest having its origin in the fact that the point of view of such a one is in many respects similar to our own, that he sees the same variety of diease acting under the same con- ditions of life, and that, therefore, his experience will be more helpful to us than the experience of a foreigner would be, and this interest is the keener when the field of such work is one in which but little has been published by our countrymen. All these conditions prevail in the present instance to make the book now at hand peculiarly attractive. The book is very conveniently divided into three parts. The first deals with anatomy and physiology and with methods of diagnosis ; the second, with treatment and ma'eria medica; and the third, with the diseases of the stomach as they present themselves clinically. Part I is very complete, and we wish to express an unqualified approval of the tendency that is shown to emphasize the simple and more practical diagnostic methods. . . . Part II, therapy and materia medica, devotes much space to dietetics, and contains a great fund of valuable information upon a subject far too little understood. The principles of dietetic treatment in gastric disease are discussed, and methods of cooking and diet lists in abundance are given. . . . The dietetics of alcohol and alcoholic beverages is the subject of a shoit but valuable chapter, and considerable attention is also given to mineral waters, and their use and abuse in diseases of the stomach. The remainder of the section is devoted to the discussion of medicinal and surgical treatment and of the effect of gastric diseases upon the rest of the organism. Part III treats of the diseases of the stomach from a clinical standpoint, and is by no means the least valuable part of the book. Much space is justly devoted to diagnosis, and the treatment is divided very conveniently into prophylactic, dietetic, and medicinal. Those derangements of the gastric function that, while not serious, are so very annoying, are here fully discussed, and what the author says will be read with interest by many who have found the usual text-books so unsatisfactory on this subject.—From the New York Medical Jotirnal.