The Monthly Journal of Medical Scince (Paperback)

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. 1852. Excerpt: ... FIRST REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY IN THE ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH. SESSION 1851-2. Edited by W. T. Gairdner, M.D., Superintendent of Pathological Anatomy; assisted by James Drummond, James C. Howden, and John Chisholm, Students of Medicine. The following report is the result of a conviction, which has impressed itself on the present Superintendent of morbid anatomy ever since he commenced his duties in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, that the records of that department comprise a body of facts of such intrinsic value as to deserve being communicated to the public in a more complete form than has been hitherto attempted. It was thought that, by an occasional publication of the more valuable portion of the observations, the interests of medical science might be promoted, while the instruction in this school would receive a special stimulus from the preservation to the student, in a permanent form, of some of the lessons recorded from facts under his own observation. The multitude of details, however, accumulating from day to day, and the necessarily common-place character of many of these, made it unadvisable to submit them to the public without considerable additional labour in the way of condensation and analysis; and the amount of routine work devolving upon the comparatively few labourers in this department of hospital duty has, up to a late period, rendered impossible the execution of the original design. By means of very considerable exertions on the part of all concerned, these obstacles have at length been overcome; and in publishing a first report of this department, Dr Gairdner has to thank his present staff of zealous and able assistants for an amount of active and intelligent co-operation which he has not before enjoye...