Excerpt from A Manual of Medical Treatment or Clinical Therapeutics, Vol. 1 Sums. The publication of the first edition of this work in 1893, it has been the author's privilege to receive from all parts of the Empire the most flattering acknowledgments of its value and usefiilness, and it now becomes his first duty to return his warmest thanks to the medical profession for their gratifying estimate of his labours. The preparation of a new and revised edition, which he might hope would he, in some respects, worthy of the very favourable reception accorded to its predecessor, has been no light task. 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.