A treatise on apoplexy, cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral embolism, cerebral gout, cerebral rheumatism, and epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis / By John A. Lidell.

  • Lidell, John A.
Date:
1873
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Credit: A treatise on apoplexy, cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral embolism, cerebral gout, cerebral rheumatism, and epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis / By John A. Lidell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    that most of the clinical histories and post-mortem records upon which this book is founded have been drawn up by the author from cases that were seen either by himself or by professional friends, upon whose dis- crimination and judgment he could rely. Out of sixty-two cases which are related, with more or less fulness, in the following pages, forty-four, or considerably more than two thirds, are original; and many other original cases are briefly cited. The change of this wort from the form of a magazine article, above mentioned, to that of a treatise on apoplexy and kindred disorders, seemed to require that a full account should be given, not only of the apoplecti- form cases, but of the other and more common varieties also, of cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral embolism, cerebral gout, cerebral rheumatism, and epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis; and this has accordingly been done with considerable minuteness of detail. The subject of Infantile Apoplexy appeared to demand a more thorough exposition than has ever been accorded to it. An entire chapter has therefore been devoted to its elucidation. The author has also attentively studied the writings of his predeces- sors and contemporaries on the various topics which are discussed in this volume ; and he has freely used the products of their labors whenever it seemed advisable for him so to do. But, at the same time, he has en- deavored to give credit in each instance of quotation to whomsoever the credit appeared to be due. He will only add that the preparation of this book has proved interesting and instructive to himself, and that he hopes the book itself will prove interesting and useful to those who read it. New Tobk, Novbmbbb 1, 1872.