
Internal Medicine Insights: 16 Books for the Inquisitive Mind
Sixteen Historic Texts on Diagnosis, Disease, Therapeutics, and Clinical PracticeBy Lewis H. Jr. Adler, S. A. D. Tissot, University of Pittsburgh. School of Medicine, Southwood Smith, J.-F. Dancel, Isaac George Briggs, Frank P. McNamara, Isabel M. Wason, M. C. Winternitz, Humphry Davy Sir Rolleston, William Stephens, Johann Doläus, J. Mitchell Bruce, John Fothergill, Clifton Wintringham, A. A. St. M. Mouritz, Russell M. Wilder, François Chicoyneau, Monsieur Soulier, Monsieur active 1720-1721 Verny, W. J., Piemontese AlessioLength70h 55m
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Internal Medicine Insights: 16 Books for the Inquisitive Mind assembles a wide-ranging conversation about the observation, interpretation, and treatment of disease. Moving across clinical reflection, medical instruction, case-oriented inquiry, and the historical language of diagnosis, the volume illuminates internal medicine as both an empirical discipline and a changing intellectual tradition. Its distinctive value lies in the juxtaposition of early modern and modern perspectives: discussions of fever, contagion, bodily systems, therapeutic judgment, and bedside practice acquire new significance when read in relation to one another. The contributors represent a notably broad medical genealogy, including physicians, medical writers, institutional voices, and scientific observers associated with European and American traditions. Figures such as Johann Doläus, John Fothergill, François Chicoyneau, Southwood Smith, M. C. Winternitz, and Russell M. Wilder evoke successive eras in which medicine negotiated humoral inheritance, clinical empiricism, public health, pathology, and modern specialization. Together, these varied voices show how internal medicine has been shaped by debate, revision, and the persistent demand to connect theory with patients' lived conditions. Recommended for students, clinicians, historians of medicine, and curious general readers, this collection offers an unusually compact route into a multiplicity of medical perspectives. It rewards comparative reading, inviting readers to trace continuities and disagreements across styles, periods, and practices while appreciating the educational dialogue created by the volume as a whole.
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GenreHealth and Wellness, Literary Classics
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Table of contents
1A Succinct Account of the Plague at Marseilles
2A Succinct Account of the Plague at Marseilles
3ACCOUNT
4A Collection of Seven and Fifty approved Receipts Good against the Plague
5A Collection of Seven and Fifty approved Receipts Good against the Plague
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6CHAP. 1. An approved Remedy againſt the Peſtilence be it never ſo vehement.
7CHAP. 56. How to make a good water againſt the Plague or Surfeite.
8An Essay on Contagious Diseases
9An Essay on Contagious Diseases
10THE PREFACE.
11CHAP. V.
12A Treatise on Fever
13A Treatise on Fever
14PREFACE.
15CHAPTER I.
16CHAPTER II.
17CHAPTER III.
18CHAPTER IV.
19CHAPTER V.
20CHAPTER VI. OF THE PATHOLOGY OF FEVER.
215. Vascularity, &c. with Softening of the Brain. (pt. 1)
225. Vascularity, &c. with Softening of the Brain. (pt. 2)
23CHAPTER VII.
24CHAPTER VIII.
25CHAPTER IX.
26APPENDIX.
27The pathology of influenza
28The pathology of influenza
29INTRODUCTION
30THE PATHOLOGY OF THE RESPIRATORY TRACT IN INFLUENZA
31II. INFLUENCE OF THE RESPIRATORY COMPLICATION OF INFLUENZA UPON TUBERCULOSIS OF THE LUNG
32III. EXTRARESPIRATORY LESIONS IN INFLUENZA
33IV. COMPARISON BETWEEN THE RESPIRATORY LESIONS OF INFLUENZA AND THOSE INITIATED BY THE INHALATION OF POISONOUS GASES
34V. PECULIARITIES OF THE HISTOLOGY OF INFLUENZAL PNEUMONIA
35VI. INFECTION AS A POSSIBLE ETIOLOGICAL FACTOR FOR MALIGNANT NEW GROWTHS
36VII. THE BACTERIOLOGY OF INFLUENZAL PNEUMONIA
37VIII. CONCLUSIONS
38BIBLIOGRAPHY
39Studies on Epidemic Influenza: Comprising Clinical and Laboratory Investigations
40Studies on Epidemic Influenza: Comprising Clinical and Laboratory Investigations
41PREFACE
42HISTORY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY OF INFLUENZA
43A CLINICAL DESCRIPTION OF INFLUENZA AS IT APPEARED IN THE EPIDEMIC OF 1918–1919
44THE URINE AND BLOOD IN EPIDEMIC INFLUENZA
45THE TREATMENT OF INFLUENZA
46THE PREVENTION OF EPIDEMIC INFLUENZA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO VACCINE PROPHYLAXIS (pt. 1)
47THE PREVENTION OF EPIDEMIC INFLUENZA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO VACCINE PROPHYLAXIS (pt. 2)
48PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL CHEMICAL OBSERVATIONS IN EPIDEMIC INFLUENZA
49THE BACTERIOLOGY OF EPIDEMIC INFLUENZA WITH A DISCUSSION OF B. INFLUENZÆ AS THE CAUSE OF THIS AND OTHER INFECTIVE PROCESSES
50THE PATHOLOGY OF EPIDEMIC INFLUENZA (pt. 1)