THE Diseases of Children and their Homeopathic Treatment. A Textbook for Students, Colleges, and Practitioners.

January 19th, 2011 |

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THE Diseases of Children and their Homeopathic Treatment. A Textbook for Students, Colleges, and Practitioners.

THE Diseases of Children and their Homeopathic Treatment.
A Textbook for Students, Colleges, and Practitioners.
BY
Robert N. Tooker, M.D.
Professor of Diseases of Children in the Chicago Homeopathic Medical College; Ex-President of the American Pedological Association; Ex-President of the Illinois Association of Homeopathic Physicians; Ex-President of the
Chicago Academy of Homeopathic Physicians and Surgeons;
Ex-Chairman of the bureau of Pedology of the
American Institute, etc., etc.

THE need of a new and comprehensive treatise on Pediatrics, adapted to the wants of students and practitioners of the Homeopathic School of Medicine, has long been recognized. The literature of the older school is replete with manuals of the highest order and cyclopedias of rare merit; but our own is almost barren in this direction. In every other branch of medicine and surgery, our authors have been numerous and prolific.
In Pediatrics alone, are we behind our confreres. This state of affairs cannot be explained on the ground of indifference, or in any way satisfactorily, except that our many able writers in this specialty have each been waiting for the other to take the initiative and assume the burden and responsibility of authorship. The writer began the preparation of the present volume more than five years ago, but its progress was suspended for several years, owing to current rumors that others quite as capable were actively engaged in a similar undertaking. As these rumors failed to materialize, the demand for a new book on the diseases of children and their homeopathic treatment became imperative, and the work was resumed.
The labor involved in the preparation of an acceptable treatise, covering the entire field of Pedology, seemed, at first, to be prohibitory, in the midst of a busy every-day practice, and the exacting duties of college work; but the enthusiastic proffers of aid from so many professional friends, who had already become widely known as authors and teachers, gave all needed encouragement, and the work has, with their help, been carried to completion in a most agreeable manner. The author’s thanks are hereby given to Prof. L. C. Grosvenor, for his chapter on the Sanitation of the Nursery; to Prof. J. H. Buffum, for the chapters on the Eye and Ear; to Prof. E. M. Hale—Affections of the Heart; and to Prof. Clifford Mitchell, for his admirable contribution on the Disorders of the Urinary Tract.
Thanks are also due to Profs. N. B. Delamater and S. N. Schneider for the section on Nervous diseases.
Finally, the author desires to express his obligations to the numerous writers of both schools of medicine, whose contributions to the literature of this subject have been constantly consulted, and at times freely drawn upon, due credit being given in the text as called for.
The diseases of children are practically the same the world over, and they have been so often, so accurately, and exhaustively described, that a distinctively original work on Pedology is scarcely possible.
The aim of the writer has been, not so much to improve on, or vary the descriptions of, disease phenomena, affecting infants and children, as set forth in other and standard treatises; nor to add to, or find fault with, accepted theories of etiology and pathology, but rather to condense our present knowledge, opinions, and theories, and gather together the best therapeutic and hygienic measures for the relief of infantile maladies.
That portion of the work for which the writer is more especially responsible, is the outgrowth of thirty years’ experience as a medical practitioner, more than half of which period has been spent as a teacher of Pediatrics. It is not presumption, therefore, to hope that the volume will be found not without merit, and that it will be acceptable and helpful to the medical student, and a welcome accession to the working library of the busy doctor.

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