Manual of Medical Treatment

Excerpt from A Manual of Medical Treatment: Or Clinical Therapeutics Although this work was revised so recently as 1902, the activity of medical research is now so considerable that it has appeared desirable that it should again undergo the process of thorough revision, so that it may be maintained on a level with modem medical progress, so far as this bears on actual clinical work. No change, however, has been made in the method of the work as originally adopted. Much laboratory research has of late years been devoted to the preparation and investigation of antibacterial and antitoxic sera, and of protective vaccines; the actual gain, however, to clinical therapeutics, apart from diphtheria antitoxine, it must be admitted, has, as yet, been very limited. In the several chapters in which these methods have been considered, we have endeavoured to give expression to the conclusions which have been arrived at, on these subjects, in our own practice and in that of the most experienced clinical observers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.