Lanterna Rally

Author: Edward L. Keyes

Publisher:

Published: 2015-08-05

Total Pages: 632

ISBN-13: 9781332316038

Excerpt from Syphilis: A Treatise for Practitioners, With Sixty-Nine Illustrations in the d104 and Nine Plates, Seven of Which Are Colored A wearied medical public, already surfeited with text-books, monographs and essays upon syphilis and kindred matters, may well ask in resentful indignation: Why this new work upon syphilis? Being the father of the writer and the godfather of many of the generalizations advanced, I think I may answer. The facts upon which the volume rests are the classified cases from the private office books covering forty years of continuous work by myself along syphilological lines, ten years of work in the same field by my son, and some gleanings from the twenty extra years included in Dr. Van Buren's case books, which the office has inherited - making a retrospect of sixty years. In this considerable mass of experience there is much matter of value that would have remained buried but for the resurrection afforded it by this volume. The generalizations, based upon the statistics above referred to, corroborate quite uniformly similar generalizations of other authors often based upon statistics numerically superior; these latter statistics being sometimes largely from the hospital and dispensary point of view. In certain of the views advanced, where this treatise differs from the majority of text-books, I am willing to share the responsibility with my son. 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.