RT Journal
T1 A textbook of medicine.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1929
FD March 23
VO 92
IS 12
SP 1010
OP 1010
DO 10.1001/jama.1929.02700380068042
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02700380068042
AB This book is divided into sections, each section being devoted to the diseases of a particular system or to the diseases and disorders due to parasites, physical agents or intoxications. There are special sections devoted to the infectious diseases, the diseases of infants and the common diseases of the skin. There is a short special section appended on examination for life assurance. The book is akin to the compend yet is comprehensive. Illustrations and plates are used sparingly and only for some special purpose. Little attempt has been made to describe the technic of laboratory tests, and detailed accounts of physical signs have been omitted because the editor feels that the student can best learn these signs by direct observation of patients with disease. Besides the editor, the contributors include nine other well known English physicians, one a Canadian.