A dictionary of medicine

Including general pathology, general therapeutics, hygiene, and the diseases peculiar to women and children

By various writers. Edited by Richard Quain, Bart., M.D. Lond., LL.D.Ed., F.R.S., president of the General Council of Medical Education; member of the Senate of the University of London; Hon. M. D. Trin. Coll. Dublin; Hon. M. D. Royal University of Ireland; fellow, late vice-president, and senior censor of the Royal College of Physicians; Hon. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland; physician extraordinary to her Majesty the Queen; consulting physician to the Hospital for of the Chest, Brompton, and to the Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich. Assisted by Frederick Thomas Roberts, M. D. Lond., B.Sc.; fellow of the Royal College of Physicians; fellow of University College; professor of materia medica and therapeutics, University College; physician and professor of clinical medicine, University College Hospital; consulting physician to the Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, Brompton; and J. Mitchell Bruce, M. A. Abdn., M. D. Lond.; fellow of the Royal College of Physicians; physician and lecturer on the principles and practice of medicine, Charing Cross Hospital; physician to the Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, Brompton. With an American index by Samuel Treat Armstrong, M.D., PH.D., visiting physician to the Harlem, Willard Parker, and Riverside Hospitals, New York, etc.