Excerpt from A System of Physiologic Therapeutics, Vol. 1 of 2: A Practical Exposition of the Methods, Other Than Drug Giving, Useful in the Prevention of Disease and in the Treatment of the Sick In this work I have endeavored to be as concise as possible without omitting important points. By desire of the editor theoretic discussions have been confined to fundamentals. The remarks concerning localities and climatic conditions in America contained in Parts I and III, and the descriptions of American health resorts in Part II, are by my collaborator, Dr. Hinsdale. A treatise like the present is necessarily to a great extent a compilation. In it I have made use of the work of many climatologists, but most help has been derived from my father, Sir H. Weber, after whose various writings, moreover, the book has been modeled. In many parts I have given his views almost verbatim as he has expressed them himself, but he cannot be held responsible for faults that may be found in my pages. 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.