The Medico-Chirurgical Review and Journal of Practical Medicine Volume 38 (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.1843 Excerpt: ... A System Of Clinical Medicine. By Robert James Graves, M. D. one of the Physicians to the Meath Hospital, Dublin: 8ro. pp.938. Dublin and London, Jan. 1843. The brief title-page and the ample volume of important matters that follows it, present a remarkable contrast with the generality of publications that come before us, where the crowded first page promises every thing, and tho atrophied or tumid body of the work performs nothing The ample opportunities which Dr. Graves has had in the Meath and 8nt P. Dun's Hospitals for clinical observation and experiment, as well as experience, have not been neglected; and the various detached essays and successive series of lectures which our author has published in the Dublin Hospital Reports, and in the pages of our contemporary, the Medical Gazette, show the diligence, the ability, and the discrimination with which he has gleaned from the bed-side of sickness, and from midnight meditation, a vast mass of the most valuable clinical knowledge. All those reports and lectures have now been carefully revised--new matters added--and much expunged or condensed--so as to bring the whole within the compass of one volume--large indeed, and closely printed--but containing a library of practical medicine. It is well known that the Dublin Schools, both medical and surgical, hold a very high rank among institutions of this kind, abroad and at home, and the professors have distinguished themselves, individually and collectively, in a very remarkable manner. The pages of this Journal bear ample testimony, for twenty years past, to the truth of this observation. In the first introductory lecture of our author, he takes an opportunity of contrasting and comparing the modes of communicating clinical instruction in the hospitals of Ed...