Observations on the Dropsy in the Brain, To Which are Added His Other Treatises Never Hitherto Published by Themselves

Edité par John Balfour, Edinburgh, 1768

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First text about Tuberculous Meningitis in children. --- Observations on the Dropsy in the Brain, To Which are Added His Other Treatises Never Hitherto Published by Themselves, Printed for John Balfour, by Balfour, Auld, & Smellie, 1st edition, Edinburgh, 1768, [iv], 158 pp, 8.2"x5.2", 3/4 leather binding over marbled boards, with gilded title and year published; slightly faded. Expertly rebound and with new endpapers. Small stamp of 'Library of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Marlyand' on bottom of title page and last page and on top of first text page. Faint spotting to title page and pages of contents, text pages clear and without damahe. Almost Fine The "Observations.) were the first account of the clinical course of tuberculous meningitis in children and were here published for the first time. The other papers printed with it, had mostly appeared in journals before. The other papers are: An account of some experiments with opium, An essay on the strength of lime-waters, etc. A letter to the Rev. Thomas Birch Postscript to Dr Whytt's observations on Lord Walpole's case Some observations . of the Carlsbad waters, lime-water and soap. An instance of the electrical virtue in the care of Palsy Cases of the remarkable effects of blisters. Extract of a letter. Whytt divided the disease into three stages according to the character of the pulse, and he attributed its various manifestations to the presence of a serous exudate in the brain. "It is a masterpiece of clinical observation, the finest first description of a disease to appear until then. Brief and lucid, the monograph is based on about a dozen cases in which everything of clinical value that could be detected without modern laboratory apparatus is recorded. Monro's foramen, connecting the lateral and third ventricles of the brain, was first observed greatly dilated in one of the cases here described, which Monro (Secundus) and Whytt saw in 1764 during a consultation" (Samuel Radbill, enthusiastically, in DSB). …

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Titre
Observations on the Dropsy in the Brain, To Which are Added His Other Treatises Never Hitherto Published by Themselves
Auteur
Robert Whytt
Éditeur
John Balfour, Edinburgh
Année de publication
1768
État de l'article
Almost fine
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no dj as issued
Reliure
#/4 leather-bound hardcover
Édition
First Edition.
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