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. 1884 Excerpt: ...and the decrease of the tumefaction so sudden, that much alarm was naturally excited in the minds of herself and family. She complained much of debility, to remedy which I allowed a free use of wine negus, and applied compression to the abdomen by means of properly adjusted swathing. In less than a week profuse night ...
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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. 1884 Excerpt: ...and the decrease of the tumefaction so sudden, that much alarm was naturally excited in the minds of herself and family. She complained much of debility, to remedy which I allowed a free use of wine negus, and applied compression to the abdomen by means of properly adjusted swathing. In less than a week profuse night sweats commenced, which still further accelerated the disappearance of the ascites, and in about a fortnight from the time the diuresis began there was no vestige of the ascites, and the integuments of the abdomen, relieved from their previous state of enormous distention, hung pendulous, as she herself expressed it, like an empty purse. The diuresis and sweating now gradually ceased, the catamenia became normal, and a nutritious diet speedily restored her strength, and she reappeared in society, to the astonishment of all her acquaintance, with an extremely delicate and slender waist. The connexion which this case exhibits between the catamenial discharge and the peritoneal secretion is interesting in many points of view too obvious to be noticed. Let me next call your attention to the occurrence of convulsions in cases of chronic dropsy. Convulsions in hydrocephalus have long attracted the attention of the profession. Those I am about to describe appear to possess features of a very different character. I have now witnessed three cases where they have suddenly and unexpectedly supervened. The first was that of a gentleman about sixty years of age, healthy, but slender, and extremely temperate in his habits; without any apparent cause, he became gradually anasarcous; the oedema commenced in his feet, and after some weeks extended to the integuments of the abdomen. He had some cough and copious expectoration at the period of this attack; his st...
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Add this copy of Clinical Lectures on the Practice of Medicine (Volume 1 to cart. $25.37, poor condition, Sold by Anybook rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lincoln, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1884 by The New Sydenham Society.
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Volume 1. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Octavo sized book. Gilt title on the backstrip. Gilt pictorial on the front cover. Decorative stamped binding on the cover. Dog eared corners. Chipped backstrip. Red page ends. Clear text. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 1150grams, ISBN:
Add this copy of Clinical Lectures on the Practice of Medicine (Volume 2 to cart. $34.44, fair condition, Sold by Anybook rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lincoln, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1884 by The New Sydenham Society.
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Volume 2. Blindstamping on both covers and spine with illumination on the front. Spine is shelf worn and tearing at the top and bottom. blindstamping fading on covers at the bottom. Spine is slightly darkened. Corners of cover are beginning to bend inwards. Pages are cut and dyed orange. This book has hardback covers. Ex-library, With usual stamps and markings, In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 1100grams, ISBN:
Add this copy of Clinical Lectures on the Practice of Medicine to cart. $57.00, fair condition, Sold by BookHouse On-Line rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Minneapolis, MN, UNITED STATES, published 1884 by New Sydenham Society.
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Fair. 2 volumes. Bindings are whole, but taped and split at outer hinges. Call numbers on spines, stamps on title pages. Bookplate of Hennepin Medical Society Library. Still sound copies in original bindings. Text is good+. Garrison-Morton 2218. Quite a comprehensive practicum. Robert James Graves, A system of clinical medicine. Dublin: Fannin & Co., 1843. This is the New Sydenham Society publication, printed from the Second Edition (1848), as titled, in 1884. Graves was one of the founders of the Irish school of medicine and one of the most important figures in Irish medicine at the middle of the 19th century.
