Excerpt from Gooch on Some of the Most Important Diseases Peculiar to Women, Vol. 2: With Other Papers The present volume was published thirty years ago, at a time when there was no English work on this branch of medicine, which could satisfy the craving of those who hungered and thirsted after knowledge of some of the most appalling diseases incident to human nature. Except where the highest principles are concerned, a decade makes the mass of scientific discoveries and opinions old. What is enunciated as, and proved to be, a truth, is rapidly absorbed into the sum of truths already secured; the labour of a life is crushed into a formula which, in proportion as it becomes current and useful, ceases to be instructive: all those fine processes by means of which the ore was extracted and minted arc laid aside and forgotten. Thus it has been with the opinions of Gooch, which, by clearing away the obscurities of the subjects he has discussed, have imparted so much certainty to thought and action, that we have almost ceased to be conscious of the daylight he shed on them, by reason of the very largeness and commonness of its diffusion. I conceive, therefore, that this Society has done well in putting into the hands of the student this volume, which will enable him to mark, and if possible appropriate, the methods by which a mind like Gooch's worked; thus affording him the occasion by which he in his own day may learn to co-ordinate and transmit his own experience for the benefit of others. 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.