THE DIAGNOSTICS OF 



INTERNAL MEDICINE 



A CLINICAL TREATISE UPON THE RECOGNIZED PRINCIPLES OF 



MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS, PREPARED FOR THE USE OF 



STUDENTS AND PRACTITIONERS OF MEDICINE 



By GLENTWORTH REEVE BUTLER, A. M., M. D. 



Chief of the Second Medical Division, Methodist Episcopal Hospital ; Attending Physician to 



^ the Brooklyn Hospital ; Consulting Physician to the Bushwick <==""!'' «°4P'f''',Xf'y 



Associate Physician, Departments of Diseases of the Chest and D>seases of Ch Idren, 



St. Mary's Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y. ■ Fellow of the New York Academy of 



Medicine ; Member of the Medical Society of the County of Kings, etc. 



New Revised Edition, Rewritten and Enlarged 



224 Illustrations, Five Plates, Twenty-two Charts. 8vo, 1061 pages 



Cloth, |6.oo 



" This is a valuable book upon an important subject. The genera] plan of the work, the 

 arrangement of subjects, the colored plates, the illustrations and diagrams, are alike excellent. 

 The book as a whole is, consequently, a rehable guide for students and practitioners in this 

 very important field of medical practice." — Journal of Medicine and Science. 



" Works on diagnosis are comparatively numerous at the present time, but each nevy one 

 has its spec'al features of interest and value. The present volume covers the greater portion 

 of the field of internal medicine in a very satisfactory way, and undoubtedly will be found by 

 many more acceptable than other works. It is particularly strong in its illustrations ; these 

 are generally very well selected to illustrate the text, which itself is clear and readable. It is 

 well worth a place in the physician's library " — Journal of the American Medical Association, 

 Chicago. 



" This volume presents some unusual features, and will find many readers who will appre- 

 ciate the method by which the subject is treated. The great bulk of the work deals with the 

 evidences of disease, and does so in a most satisfactory manner. The student is taught how 

 to proceed in the examination of his patient, what routine questions are to be asked such as 

 would lead to rf. preliminary opinion which in turn would suggest certain examinations in 

 detail. The author teaches not only what to do, but how to do it, and his advice and method 

 of diagnosis are to be highly recommended. The smaller details, which only acute observers 

 notice, are pointed out and their significance is weighed. It will be of service as a reference 

 book in suggesting explanations in cases where but one or few symptoms, not pathognomonic, 

 are presented for diagnosis — for each symptom is explained and the ordinary diseases in which 

 it occurs are mentioned, while in the latter part of the book the diseases are treated separately, 

 so that direct suggestions can be immediately considered without consulting another volume. 

 All the modern laboratory methods are well described, the chapters on the blood and stomach 

 contents being especially good, though brief. The thorough modernness of the instruction is 

 well instanced by drawings of the culex and anopheles genera of mosquitoes. The author is 

 evidently fully conversant with the clinical evidences of disease, for his treatment of the 

 chapters on the signs and symptoms which present themselves in the patient is unusually well 

 balanced with reference to their importance. The section on pain is very thorough ; the 

 illustrations are profuse and particularly instructive. " — Medical Record. 



D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK 



