Synopsis of Tropical Medicine

Synopsis of Tropical Medicine

Synopsis of Tropical Medicine

Synopsis of Medicine

A Synopsis of Medicine

A SYNOPSIS OF MEDICINE. By Sir Henry Letheby Tidy, K.B.E., M.A., M.D., F.R.C.P. Bristol: John Wright & Sons. Pp. 1215. 30s. WHEN, in 1920, Dr. H. L. Tidy set himself the task of producing "A Synopsis of Medicine" it was a formidable undertaking. How successful its outcome and how ac-ceptable to thousands of. medical readers is shown by the need for an eighth edition in 1945. The task which face...

The History of Medicine: A Short Synopsis

We can imagine the excessively practical?and shortsighted?student complaining that he does not see how a most minute knowledge of the lives of Hippocrates or Galen is going to help him to prescribe the correct treatment in a case of pneumonia or to recognise an acute abdomen. But he is wrong, and, fortunately, if we are to accept the statement of the writer of the foreword in the book under rev...