Excerpt from Pathological and Practical Researches on Diseases of the Brain and the Spinal Cord IT is a matter df the utmost delicacy for a physician to ob trude upon the profession his general statements, in regard either to the phenomena of disease, or the action of remedies. The value of such statements does not depend upon his vera city only, but must likewise rest, in a very great degree, upon the character which he bears as a philosophical observer, and the extent of the observations on which his conclusions are founded. Hence arises the hesitation with which we receive all general statements, when made by persons with whose opportunities of observation and habits of induction we are not acquainted; and 'the importance which we attach to a simple record of facts, in a concise and accessible form, apart both from hypothesis and system. The author of such a re cord contributes that which has a fixed and certain value, de pendent only upon his correctness in distinctly describing what he has seen; and thus is furnished a series of facts which every practitioner may study for himself, and from which he may acquire a knowledge of phenomena, and of their relations to each other, nearly'in the same manner as he does from his own observation. 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.