Glasgow Medical Journal Volume 45 baixar o livro de graça

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...not a few of the designations employed, doctrines taught, and even headings of chapters in this work recall to our memory the fascinating Clinical Lectures and Essays. In the present volume, the diseases of joints are studied from the points of view of pathology and medicine, as well as of surgery, so that the physician and pathologist, and not only the surgeon, will find that Mr. Marsh can interest and instruct. The teaching is full of encouragement throughout, and this is one of its many pleasing features. Surgery has made huge strides in recent years, and the mortality of certain diseases of joints has been enormously reduced by improved methods of treatment; whilst the suffering entailed upon patients who come under judicious treatment at an early stage of the disease is quite trifling in comparison with what it was not long ago. The chapters dealing with excision of joints and with hip disease might be specially mentioned in relation to this aspect of the subject. But on the question of relative merit, we have no inclination to single out any one part of a work, so uniformly good, as better than another; we simply commend it in its entirety to the most favourable consideration of medical men. A Practical Treatise on Diphtheria and its Successful Treatment, by Brownlow R. Martin, A.B., MB.(Dublin). Second Edition. London: Bailliere, Tindall & Cox. 1895. The mortality t'rom diphtheria is so high that one gladly would know of any drug which will in any way lessen it. Dr. Martin claims this merit for sulphite of magnesium. He says on page 56: --" As far as I can calculate, I have attended more than 150 cases by this method in which membrane was present, and probably about 100 more which were undoubtedly septic. Beyond this I am unable to state...