Excerpt from Infectious Diseases: A Practical Textbook
The appearance of this edition, which it had been intended to produce in 1914, has been delayed by the war, and in consequence the greater part of the volume, which at that time was nearly ready for publication, has been subjected twice to thorough revision. The large amount of work which has been done on the subject of infectious diseases during the last ten years has necessitated extensive alterations and additions, and several portions of the book have been entirely rewritten. To make room for new matter the chapter on relapsing fever has been omitted and the sections on bacteriology and pathology have been reduced to the lowest possible limits.
While the book remains for the most part a record of personal experience, it was found impossible during the war to give time to make trial of many forms of treatment and methods of diagnosis which appear well worthy of notice. It has seemed advisable, therefore, to include not a few of which I have little or no practical experience, but which I hope to employ at the first possible opportunity. No doubt there are many unavoidable omissions in the pages which follow, but few, I trust, of outstanding importance.
I have in this edition made use of so many valuable contributions to the literature of the subject that it seems almost invidious to make special mention of a few only of their authors. But I desire to express my particular indebtedness to the writings of Drs. J.D. Rolleston, E.B. Gunson, and Frederic Thomson in this country, and to those of Drs. Charles V.Chapin, Frederick P.Gay, William H.Park, and Abraham Zingher in the United States of America. To the last named, especially, I owe a debt of gratitude both for the instruction he gave us at the City Hospital in the technique of the Schick test and for the coloured plate which illustrates it in this volume.
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