Author: Henry Charlton Bastian

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-20

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 9780266537922

Excerpt from On Paralysis From Brain Disease in Its Common Forms These Lectures were delivered in University College Hospital last year, at a time when I was doing duty for one of the senior physicians, and during the same year - after they had been reproduced from very full notes taken by my friend Mr. John Tweedy - they appeared in the pages of T Ire Lancet. They are now republished at the request of many friends, though only after having undergone a very careful revision, during which a considerable quantity of new matter has been added. It would have been easy to have very much increased the size of the book by the introduction of a larger number of illustrative cases and by treatment of many of the subjects at greater length, but this the author has purposely abstained from doing, under the belief that in its present form it is likely to prove more acceptable. To students, and also perhaps more useful to busy practitioners. Notwithstanding its defects and many short comings, the author is not without a hope that this little book may be considered in some measure to supply a deficiency which has long existed in medical literature. No department of medicine stands more in need of being represented in a text book of moderate compass; so that, imperfect as it is, this small work may perhaps be of some service till it is superseded by something better. In it the author has endeavoured to treat the subject with more precision than has hitherto been customary, and whilst the Lectures contain some novelties in method and mode of exposition, he hopes they may also be found not unfaithfully to embody the principal facts at present known concerning this very im portant class of diseases. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.