Disease in children : a manual for students and practitioners / by James Carmichael.

  • Carmichael, James.
Date:
1892
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Disease in children : a manual for students and practitioners / by James Carmichael. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. In writing this Manual, the author has endeavoured to crive a concise account of the clinical features of the more common diseases met with in children. He has assumed that the reader is acquainted with general medicine and the diseases of adult life. While dealing for the most part, in a pathological sense, with the same morbid conditions as in adult life, it is the duty of the clinical teacher in the department of pediatrics to show how the anatomical and physiological characteristics of the periods of infancy and childhood tend to modify in many ways the features and clinical relations of disease in children. No attempt has been made, but in exceptional instances, to give a detailed and systematic account of symptoms and physical signs as in lengthened monographs and treatises, of which there are many and excellent ones in this country and abroad. The space given to each subject has been limited or extended, in proportion to its importance. Some subjects have only received passing allusion for the sake of connection, and others of less