The British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review, Vol. 25

Download or read book The British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review, Vol. 25 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review, Vol. 25: Or Quarterly Journal of Practical Medicine and Surgery; January-April, 1860 Profoundly impressed with the truth of the aphorism of Laennec, that diseases can only he certainly distinguished by their anatomical characters, M. Bretonneau based his inquiry exclusively on post-mortem investigations, and prosecuted this line of research so far as to arrive at the conclusion with respect to several important diseases previously supposed to have no relation to one another, that they are connected either by identity in their accompanying anatomical appearances, or by so complete a similarity that they may be considered as phases of the same morbid process. An epidemic of malignant sore-throat which occurred at Tours in the year 1818, was the occasion of his earliest observations. His first memoir is mainly devoted to the consideration of the afi'octions which had previously been described in France as epidemic croup, or malignant angina. The second contains in one section a careful description of the epidemic above mentioned, which is followed by a historical summary of previous outbreaks while two others are devoted to the communicability of the disease by contagion, and to its treatment. In 1825 and 1826 the epidemic again broke out in the neighbourhood of Tours, at La Ferriere and Chenusson, and formed the subject of new researches. These four papers, with various appendices, constitute the treatise on Diphtherite, the first edition of which appeared in 1826. 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.