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Osler's Principles and Practice of Medicine.

Osler's Principles and Practice of Medicine. This article is only available in the PDF format. Download the PDF to view the article, as well as its associated figures and tables. Abstract This is the fourteenth edition of this book and celebrates its fiftieth birthday. A comparison of the first edition with the present one has shown that the original work contains 1,079 pages and the present edition 1,475. It is a tribute to the present author that he has been able to bring the work up to date with the addition of these relatively few pages. One must remember that vitamins, hormones, the types of cardiac arrhythmia and even diphtheria antitoxin, to say nothing of sulfanilamide and its derivatives, were still to be introduced into medicine in 1892. The specific infectious diseases of the first edition have been subdivided into groups according to causative agents: bacteria, viruses, rickettsias, bartonellas, fungi and protozoa. None of the "infectious diseases of doubtful nature" of the first edition are so listed in the present one. These have all been fitted into the proper places. There http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Archives of Internal Medicine American Medical Association

Osler's Principles and Practice of Medicine.

Archives of Internal Medicine , Volume 71 (6) – Jun 1, 1943

Osler's Principles and Practice of Medicine.

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This article is only available in the PDF format. Download the PDF to view the article, as well as its associated figures and tables. Abstract This is the fourteenth edition of this book and celebrates its fiftieth birthday. A comparison of the first edition with the present one has shown that the original work contains 1,079 pages and the present edition 1,475. It is a tribute to the present author that he has been able to bring the work up to date with the addition of these relatively few...
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Publisher
American Medical Association
Copyright
Copyright © 1943 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved.
ISSN
0730-188X
DOI
10.1001/archinte.1943.00210060166011
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Abstract

This article is only available in the PDF format. Download the PDF to view the article, as well as its associated figures and tables. Abstract This is the fourteenth edition of this book and celebrates its fiftieth birthday. A comparison of the first edition with the present one has shown that the original work contains 1,079 pages and the present edition 1,475. It is a tribute to the present author that he has been able to bring the work up to date with the addition of these relatively few pages. One must remember that vitamins, hormones, the types of cardiac arrhythmia and even diphtheria antitoxin, to say nothing of sulfanilamide and its derivatives, were still to be introduced into medicine in 1892. The specific infectious diseases of the first edition have been subdivided into groups according to causative agents: bacteria, viruses, rickettsias, bartonellas, fungi and protozoa. None of the "infectious diseases of doubtful nature" of the first edition are so listed in the present one. These have all been fitted into the proper places. There

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Archives of Internal MedicineAmerican Medical Association

Published: Jun 1, 1943

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