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Tuberculosis of the Bones and Joints in Children. E-book. Formato PDF John Fraser - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
Some years ago, through the kindness of Mr. Stiles, I was enabled to carry out an investigation of a number of cases of tuberculous disease of the bones and the joints. The pathological and etiological aspects of these studies were presented as a Thesis for the degree of M.D. of Edinburgh University in the year 1912, and a number of isolated papers have been published in various periodicals.The disease was also observed from the clinical aspect, and a combination of these two investigations has resulted in the publication of the present work. I recognised that a collation of experimental and pathological results were of little value unless combined with the more practical clinical side.The present work deals with the disease purely as it occurs in children, and this accounts for the omission of regional diseases which do not occur in childhood, e.g. tuberculosis of the patella.The book is divided into two portions: a consideration of the disease from the general aspect, and an investigation of it as it appears in individual regions. At the end of each section there is a compilation of the more recent literature dealing with the subject; the author wishes it to be clearly under.stood that he has not personally consulted all of these references, they are added to improve the value of the work from a consultation point of view.I have dedicated this book to Mr. Stiles, surgeon to the Children's Hospital and to Chalmers Hospital, and I cannot make too complete acknowledgment of my indebtedness to him. He originally embarked me on the study; he gave me access to the valuable specimens which he has such a unique opportunity of obtaining; and during the pathological investigation.s he repeatedly gave me the benefit of his wide pathological knowledge. The illustrations, with few expectations, I owe directly or indirectly to him.
The Aborigines of New South Wales. E-book. Formato PDF John Fraser - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
It will not be necessary, at this point, to say more about the origin of the Australian black man; I now proceed to examine him in his native environ ment, as he grows up from birth to manhood, and thence from manhood to old age. If the limits assigned to this pamphlet had permitted, additional sections could have been introduced, treating of the 'karaji' or medicine-man, spirit world, mythology, the physical features of the natives, their moral and intellectual qualities, their cave-paintings and other specimens of art, their language, as well as the probable origin and migrations of the Australian race. But, as it is, many of my facts and arguments are here produced for the first time and the same facts are sometimes referred to in two or more sections, for they belong to each.
The Etruscans. E-book. Formato PDF John Fraser - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
The Celts, on their first irruption into Europe, dwelt for a time in Thrace, Macedonia, and Greece; in Thessaly and Greece they were called Pelasgi. The concurrent testimony of ancient authors, who state that the Etruscan cities were Pelasgian, is to be taken to mean that the Etruscans were of the same Celtic stock as the Pelasgians of Greece, probably Pelasgians thrown forward upon Italy by those waves of population which rapidly followed each other from Western Asia. After the Etruscans had been settled for some time in Italy, principally in the country between the PO and the Tiber, their pure Druidical worship was affected by the arrival of a Chaldaean ritual and the art of the sooth sayer; these had been dislodged from their native seats by one of those social and political convulsions which from time to time shook the Babylonian Empire — and had passed into Lydia or Maconia,1 the land of enchanters and soothsayers, and thence into Italy, where they found a home among a kindred race, the Etruscans; thus some authors assert that the Etruscans were of Lydian origin.