Textbook of Medicine

A Textbook of Medicine

Price's Textbook of Medicine

THERE are two types of textbook of medicine. The one deals primarily with principles and omits detail, while the other consists largely of factual information. Both types are necessary. Price's Textbook of Medicine falls into the latter category and is an excellent book of its type. The new edition is extensively rewritten and the new sections are in most cases a considerable improvement on tho...

A Textbook of Medicine

Textbook of Medicine

"cortical mosaic" theory of the localization of movements by the unit representation of individual muscles, and stresses the importance, alike to physiologists and clinicians, of a wvider appreciation of the importance of the hypothesis of multiple and overlapping representations of movements rather than muscles. In this admirable essay the author shows himself to share with Hughlings Jackson, ...

Textbook of Medicine

THIS is a collection of five addresses previously delivered by Sir Thomas Lewis, with a preface. The convincing logic of his views and the precision with which they are expressed make one feel that the book should be in the hands of every teaching physician and every professor of physiology. It speaks volumes for the sane discriminating insight of the author that he can combine an address writt...