Excerpt from A System of Medicine, Vol. 1 The latterday Editor of a System of Medicine is met on the thresh old by a vast increase of the matter with which he has to deal. In the Introduction some fuller reference is made to this increase; at present it is sufficient to point out that to aetiology alone the whole chapter of bacteriology has been added. Contributors speak of the difficulty of keeping the matter within anything like the limits assigned to them; for what is true of aetiology is true more or less for every section of every chapter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.