Excerpt from A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine, Vol. 1 of 2 IN the composition of this work, an effort has been made to exhibit a distinct view of the, essential phenomena and principles pertaining to the various subjects which it em braces, with antespecial endeavour to avoid the extremes of unsatisfactory brevity on the one hand, and of fatiguing prolixity of detail and discussion on the other. With the exception, therefore, of a few instances in the introductory portion of the work, the author has indulged but little in controversial discussion andgeneral Speculation. His object has been, to give a digest of facts and established princi ples, rather than of Opinions and points of disputation. He has not, however, failed to give an exposition of those pathological and therapeutic principles, which appeared to him fairly deducible from the particular phenomena brought under consideration; and whenever his own experience and reflections have led, him to, differ from others, he has freely, though he trusts with becoming deference, stated his senti ments. 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.