On the Pathology, Symptoms and Treatment of Ulcer of the Stomach [antikvár]

PREFACE. The following work is a reprint, with somé alterations and additions, of various papers on Ulcer of the Stomach, contributed by me during the last few months to the British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review, the Lancet, and the Association Journal. How far its contents include anything növel, true, or useful, is scarcely for me to determine. I hope, however, that it may be described as collecting and incorporating facts hitherto scattered and little accessible ; and as recording the existing state of our knowledge respecting this disease in a form calculated to facilitate those additions and corrections which Time is sure to bring. The plan of my inquiry is too fully detailed in the following pages to demand more than a brief allusion here. Wishing to make that inquiry a study from Nature, I have drawn my materials exclusively from cases; either observed by myself, or recorded by others. The number of cases thus collected has, however, rendered it impossible for me to specify their sources, save