An edition of Medical and surgical memoirs
(1876)
Medical and surgical memoirs
containing investigations on the geographical distribution, causes, nature, relations and treatment of various diseases 1855-1890
by Jones, Joseph
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Medical and surgical memoirs: containing investigations on the geographical distribution, causes, nature, relations and treatment of various diseases 1855-1890
1876, Printed for the author by Clark and Hofeline
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Vol. 1. Observations on diseases of the nervous system. Investigations on the nature, causes, relations and treatment of traumatic tetanus, illustrated by observations on various diseases of the nervous system, and by experiments on living animals with certain poisons ; Observations on cerebro-spinal meningitis, and more especially as it appeared amongst the soldiers of the Confederate States Army during the Civil War of 1861-1865
Clinical observations on certain diseases of the lymphatic and circulatory systems and of the liver and kidneys, illustrating the relations of dropsy to various diseases
Investigations on the prevalence and fatality of pneumonia in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War of 1861-1865, with pratical observations on the relative value of the different modes of treating pneumonia
Mollities ossium (malakosteon, osteo-malacia, osteo-sarcoris, knochenerweichung, rachitismus adultorum, rickets or softening of the bones in the adult).
Vol. 2. Ch. I. Investigations on endemic, epidemic, infectious and contagious diseases, and on the nature, causes, relations and treatment of malarial paroxysmal fevers; mode of investigating the origin, nature and effects of malaria; classification of the various forms of malarial fevers
Ch. II. Physical and chemical characters and changes of the blood in malarial fever and other diseases
Ch. III. Comparison of the changes of the blood in malarial fever and other diseases, pyrexial and phlegmasial; microscopical characters and changes of the blood in various diseases; micro-organisms in malarial fever and other diseases
Ch. IV. Haemorrhagic malarial fever; malignant forms of malarial paroxysmal fever, malarial haematuria
Ch. V. Circulation, respiration, temperature, state of the skin, tongue, and changes of the urine in intermittent, remittent and congestive fever; principles of treatment based upon these observations
Ch. VI. Pathological anatomy of malarial fever; changes of the organs and tissues, and apparatus of the bodies of those who have died with the different types of malarial fever, intermittent, remittent and congestive; comparison of these changes with the phenomena of malarial fever, and with similar changes in other diseases, and with the organs, tissues, and apparatus of men and animals in the normal condition
(Vol. 2, cont.) Ch. VII. Treatment of malarial fever; prevention of malarial fever; indigenous remedies of the southern states of the United States of America, which may be employed as substitutes for the sulphate of quinia in the treatment of the various forms of malarial fever; prevention of malarial fever by hygienic, dietetic and therapeutic measures; principles of the treatment of the various forms and effects of malarial fever ; Ch. VIII. Changes of color in the human race: observations and researches on albinism in the Negro race
Leprosy in America. Ch. IX. General observations ; Ch. X. Yaws, libbens, sivvens, pian, epian, framboesia, syphilis aethiopica ; Ch. XI. Leprosy, elephantiasis graecorum ; Ch. XII. Notes on the history of leprosy in the southern states ; Ch. XIII. Aetiology: causes and origin of leprosy (elephantiasis graecorum) in North America, and more especially in the valley of the Mississippi River ; Ch. XIV. Morbid anatomy of leprosy ; Ch. XV. Bacillus leprae ; Ch. XVI. Treatment of Oriental leprosy (elephantiasis graecorum): views of the older writers ; Ch. XVII. Elephantiasis arabum, elephant's leg, barbadoes leg.
Vol. 3. Pt. I. Endemic, epidemic, contagious and infectious diseases: measures for their prevention and arrest: malarial fever, yellow fever, typhoid fever, typhus fever, Asiatic cholera, small-pox, (variola,) modified small-pox, (varioloid,) chicken-pox, (varicella), vaccination, spurious vaccination, measles, scarlatina, diphtheria, phthisis pulmonalis, syphilis, alcoholism; theory and practice of quarantine, relations of drainage, soil, food, water and climate, to endemic, epidemic, contagious and infectious diseases; application of measures for the exclusion and arrest of yellow fever and small-pox in the Mississippi Valley, illustrated by quarantine and sanitary operations of the Board of Health of the State of Louisiana, during 1880, 1881, 1882 and 1883.
Vol. 3. Pt. II. Monographs illustrating the following subjects: philosophical principles of education and their scientific application to the development and perfection of the medical profession; vital capacity of the human lungs in health and disease; contribution to teratology; general medicine, diseases of the nervous system, congenital and acquired insanity, advancement in the treatment of the insane during the nineteenth century, treatment of the insane in Louisiana, medical history of the insane asylum of the State of Louisiana; the relation of quarantine to commerce in the Mississippi Valley, the use of antipyretic remedies in febrile diseases, public and international hygiene, progress of the discovery of disinfectants and their application for the arrest of contagion, the history of maritime hygiene as applied by the great naval powers.
Edition Notes
First edition.
"The various monographs, maps, charts, and tables, composing this third volume of the Medical and surgical memoirs, have been printed at different times and in different places during the part 10 years, and therefore the author does not claim absolute uniformity..."--Author's note following table of contents, v. III, pt. I.
Vol. I: xvii, [1], [2], 820 p. Vol. II: xxii, 1348 p., 16 lithographed plates (12 color). Vol. III, pt. I: 16, 40, ccclxciii, [1], 542 p. Vol. III, pt. II: 359, [3], [40], [96], [56] p.
Appendices in v. 3 pt. 2.
Includes indices.
OHSU copy probably imperfect: lacks chromolithographed small pox plates; with only 12 of 21 maps. Vol. III pts. I and II have a total of 18 folded tables in 21 sheets (1, 13-19, A-P, and two not listed in contents) and 9 maps. Vol. 3 has stamp: Medical Library, Ministry of Health.
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