Pottenger, F: SYMPTOMS OF VISCERAL DISEASE A - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 1177572303 ISBN 13 : 9781177572309

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The fact that the first edition of this book was exhausted so soon after its publication came as a welcome surprise. It indicates an awakened interest in that phase of medicine which makes the patient himself the chief object of study. In the present edition I have followed the same arrangement as in the preceding one. No new chapters but much new material has been added. The text has been amplified and clarified throughout. Factors which offer a basis for the classification of symptoms; the segmental relationships of tissues and organs with reference to the mediation of reflexes; principles and laws governing reflexes; particular factors which operate to cause variability of symptoms; and effects of certain internal secretions upon the vegetative nerves and their power to modify nerve response both in health and disease; have alt been discussed more fully than in the previous edition. The effect of psychical states in the initiation of symptoms or in modifying them when due to disease processes has been given considerable attention. Some new material wilt also be found in Part II, in those chapters which deal with the innervation and common symptoms of the important viscera. The changes in Part III are of minor importance and mainly for the purpose of clarifying the text. Some criticism has been made to the effect that the names of the reflexes are cumbersome, but this same criticism is made of the terms used in other new flelds of knowledge and is largely due to unfamiliarity with the subject. They are not as cumbersome as they seem and they have the advantage that the name suggests a description of the reflex. In describing and classifying reflexes I followed a plan, in which the name indicates both the organ and the nerve path through which the reflex is produced. Sympathetic reflexes had previously been designated by the prefix viseero. This I have cont
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• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1177572303
• ISBN 13: 9781177572309
• Reliure: Broché
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