A practical synopsis of cutaneous diseases : according to the arrangement of Dr. Willan / exhibiting a concise view of the diagnostic symptoms and the method of treatment, edited by Anthony Todd Thomson.

  • Bateman, Thomas, 1778-1821.
Date:
1829
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Credit: A practical synopsis of cutaneous diseases : according to the arrangement of Dr. Willan / exhibiting a concise view of the diagnostic symptoms and the method of treatment, edited by Anthony Todd Thomson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the matter has been derived partly from personal experience and research, but prin- cipally from a constant intercourse with Dr, Willan , upon the subject of these diseases, during a period of ten years, while his colleague at the Public Dispensary, and from his own communications in liis last illness, before he departed for Madeira, when he kindly under- took a cursory perusal of his unfinished MSS. for my information, during which I made notes relative to those points with which I was least acquainted. For it was, in fact, his wish, that the Profession should possess a sketch of the whole of his arrangement, even when the completion of his own treatise, though distant, was not without hope. Were I capable of following my learned preceptor through the literary and historical researches which enriched his publication, it would be altogether incompatible with my plan. I have, however, deemed it advisable to intro- duce into notes some brief illustrations and references, which, without interrupting the practical details, may satisfy the reader that the principles of the classification and nomen- clature were not adopted without the sanction of reason and authority. I am far from maintaining that this arrange-