Davidson's Principles and Practice of Medicine
16th Edition
Published on 10. June 1991
Book
Paperback/Softback
1044 pages
978-0-443-04092-4 (ISBN)
Description
This new edition is intended to be of practical use to the reader, and places emphasis on the clinical features and investigations used to achieve a diagnosis and also provides more information on the management of various diseases. The text has been updated to ensure that this new edition reflects the practice of medicine in Britain but a the same time carries an account of the experience of medicine in tropical and developing countries. Changes have been made in the chapter layout and content with new sections on disorders of the skin, climate and environmetnal disease and re-organization of the material on infection and antimicrobial therapy. The contributors discuss diseases of connective tissues, bones and joints, psychiatric medicine and acute poisoning. Diseases of the blood, skin diseases, oncology, infections, disturbances in water, endocrine and metabolic diseases.
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Edition
16th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Elsevier Health Sciences
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
150 half-tones, 200 line drawings, tables, index
Dimensions
Height: 46 mm
Width: 245 mm
Weight
2080 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-443-04092-4 (9780443040924)
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Stanley Davidson | I.A.D. Bouchier | C. Haslett
Davidson's Principles and Practice of Medicine
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08/1995
17th Edition
Churchill Livingstone
€38.32
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Stanley Davidson | John MacLEOD | Christopher Edwards
Principles and Practice of Medicine
Book
02/1988
15th Edition
Churchill Livingstone
€40.85
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Content
Genetic factors in disease, A.E.H.Emery; immunological factors in disease, A.Ferguson; nutritional factors in disease, A.S.Truswell and J.D.Baird; climate and environmental factors in disease, A.D.M.Bryceson and C.A.Soutar; diseases due to infection, A.M.Geddes, A.D.M.Bryceson and R.N.Thin; disturbances in water, electrolyte and acid-base balance, A.T.Lambie; oncology, J.F.Smyth; diseases of the cardiovascular system, D.P.de Bono and N.A.Boon; diseases of the respiratory system, G.K.Crompton and G.J.R.McHardy; diseases of the alimentary tract and pancreas, D.J.C.Shearman and G.P.Crean; diseases of the liver and billary system, N.D.C.Finlayson, I.A.D.Bouchier and J.Richmond; diseases of the kidney and genito-urinary system, A.M.Davison and A.T.Lambie; endocrine and metabolic diseases, C.R.W.Edwards, J.D.Baird and A.D.Toft; diseases of the blood, N.C.Allan and C.A.Ludlam; diseases of connective tissues, bones and joints, G.Nuki; diseases of the nervous system, R.E.Cull and R.G.Will; diseases of the skin, J.Hunter; psychiatric medicine, G.Lloyd; acute poisoning, A.A.H.Lawson.