Excerpt from The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery, Vol. 2: Being a Half-Yearly Journal, Containing a Retrospective View of Every Discovery and Practical Improvement in the Medical Sciences
As many may probably read this second volume of the Retrospect of Medicine and Surgery, who will not have the opportunity of seeing the first, it may be as well once more, briefly to state that the object of the work is to bring into one focus all the pithy materials of the numerous Medical Journals now published; omitting that matter, which, however interesting in many respects, is not of real and essential importance to the bed-side practitioner and truly practical man. There are so many Medical .Journals published at the present time, and likely to be more, that it becomes absolutely necessary, if the active practitioner means to keep pace with the discoveries and improvements continually being made, that he should possess some such work as this, which will present to him atone view, every few months, and at a comparatively small expense, a summary of the most practical articles to be found scattered in so numerous a list of periodicals. By this means, every practitioner may go on taking in the one or two Journals which he is accustomed to, and may at the same time have a condensed account of all the rest; curtailed indeed considerably, but in fact giving every truly practical remark, and especially every really original observation and new mode of treatment; and those practitioners who do not take in any Medical Journal whatever, will now have the opportunity, iu an easy and expeditious way, of making themselves as well acquainted with every necessary improvement, as those who read ever so much. The table will be spread ready for their repast, and the most practical matter will be brought before them ready digested, without the trouble of wading through fourteen or fifteen different journals and periodicals.
This work will be especially useful to the busy practitioner who has not time to read much, to the country practitioner who has not the opportunity, and to the young practitioner who cannot afford it. At the same time it will not lie discouraging those who have the time and opportunity to enter more fully into the periodical Medical literature of the day.
In this volume will be found an abridged account or digest of almost every article of value on the treatment of disease to be found in the different Medical Journals, from July to December, 1840. The practice of Medicine, Surgery, and Midwifery, has been the chief object in view; Anatomy and Physiology have only been glanced at.
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