Excerpt from Elements General Pathology: A Practical Treatise on the Causes, Forms, Symptoms, and Results of Disease English Medical Literature has hitherto possessed no work ex clusively devoted to General Pathology. In nearly all of the sys tematic treatises and dictionaries of medicine in our language this subject is either discussed theoretically and imperfectly, or is alto gether unnoticed. The well-known and valuable work of Dr. Williams forms scarcely an exception to this statement, for its scope not only embraces General Pathology in the proper sense, but also hygiene, prophylaxis, and therapeutics; in consequence of which extended plan the author was obliged to restrict himself to. A brief general View of Etiology, Nosology, Semeiology, Dia gnosis, and Prognosis, subjects which will be found to occupy nearly the whole of the following 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.