Lectures on Bright's disease : delivered at the Royal Infirmary of Glasgow / by D. Campbell Black.

  • Black, Donald Campbell, 1841-1898.
Date:
1875
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    accepted by the profession. Even these, we think will provoke discussion, nd so hasten the time when the functional diseases of the male shall be as carefully studied and treated as those of the female.—Michigan Univ. Journal. There is so much cleverness, bon hommie, and frankness, and apparent honesty of purpose, and distaste for quackery that hostile criticism is disarm- ed. .. . It is an interesting, original, and will probablv prove a useful work. With Chapter IV. begins the real work of the Author, on The Pathology and Treatment of Nocturnal Enuresis and Spermatic Incontinence. This is followed by a Avell-reasoned and manly discussion of the unsavory subject. The practical observations on treatment are sensible. The book is nicely got up and the Table of Contents and Index are admirably arranged. —Edin. Med. Jour. Dr. Black deserves all praise for the manliness, heartiness, honesty of purpose, and scientific zeal with which he has treated a subject which has become distasteful from its associations, which lias been too much shunned by our profession, and which has unfortunately fallen almost altogether into the hands of charlatans. . . . Dr. Black's book contains much useful information, and will doubtless prove interesting to many readers.—Binning - ham Medical Review. This is an important work, showing extensive research and conveying much information.—The Doctor. There are some points in reference to the functional disorders of the reproductive system that are continually forcing themselves upon medical men, but which few practitioners care to investigate. Some of these have been fully discussed in this and other medical journals, but unfortunately such topics are apt to be neglected, and hence fall into the hands of those least qualified to discuss them. Hence the continual increase of a class of literature that we cannot but condemn, and which finds its way into the hands of ignorant young men, who thus become the victims of quackery. These topics require most careful handling by highly qualified men, and yet the majority dislike to associate their names with them, and even able writers on diseases of the generative organs frequently omit the consideration of those disorders that possess a real existence and feed the charlatans. It is desirable, therefore, that such writers should supply the omission, and thus prevent the subject from remaining in unqualified hands, and it is also well that medical journals have of late years directed attention to them. We have had by us for a long time a volume by Dr. Campbell Black, in which the topics we have alluded to, are freely discussed, and which is, perhaps, the best work of reference respecting them for medical men.— Med. Press and Circular. On Certain Aspects of Medical Reform. On the Relations of Prescriber to Dispenser. Dr. Black speaking boldly on these and other subjects, we cordially wish him success in his efforts at medical reform.—Westminster Bcciew.