Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Prophylaxis and Treatment of Internal Diseases: Designed for the Use of Practitioners and of Advanced Students of Medicine
This book has been written for physicians and for advanced students. It embodies the results of thirty years' experience in hospital and private practice, and is only a compilation in so far as it deals with the prophy laxis and treatment of tropical diseases, which are now of great importance, and where my experience has been lacking. In these cases I have consulted and abstracted the literature which I have thought most reliable.
Those methods of treatment which have been most serviceable to me are invariably mentioned first, and are followed by other useful methods, and by such as are recommended by accepted authorities.
The methods recommended for prophylaxis and therapy are such as can be carried out in private practice, and when for any reason hospital or sanatorium treatment is needed, or when I have had no experience with the therapy recommended by others, the statement is explicitly made.
It has been my aim to consider all the modern methods of treatment as they are of the utmost importance. It will be seen, therefore, that much space is devoted to hydrotherapy, gymnastics, exercises, diet, and always with a view to their adaptation to private practice. When this Is not possible, such places are named as have seemed to me to be of most value. The diet recommended can be obtained in any American household, and the food values are taken from a table of American foods prepared by Atwater, which is found in the Appendix.
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