Excerpt from Clinical Illustrations of the More Important Diseases of Bengal: With the Result of an Inquiry Into Their Pathology and Treatment Are often able to form a.precise judgment 'of the actual extent of the disease which has been subdued, and thus arrive at a correct esti mate of the confidence justly due to the mode of treatment that had been adopted. But in these pursuits, we must not forget that morbid anatomy only affords useful information, when the appearances observed, are compared with the symptoms which formerly existed - as the actual morbid condition during life, and even that con. Dition which had been chiefly instrumental in the destruction of life; is often evanescent, so that We find but slight traces of it on dissection. For example, when patients die with the skin in the highest degree of redness from variola, or scarlatina; or when an erysipelas over the whole of a limb, has existed in the most intense degree up to the moment of death; how different is the trace left six hours after dissolution. When a man has died from any disease attended with severe inflammation of the eyes; how little of its characters remain after death. On the other. 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.