Excerpt from Book on the Physician Himself: And Things That Concern His Reputation Impressed with the belief that a "Book on the Physician Himself and Things that Concern His Reputation and Success" would be of decided benefit to numerous members of the profession, and finding no such work extant, I, with diffidence, attempted the duty of writing one. This book is the result. The marked favor with which it has been received by the medical press, the expressions of approval by many well-known members of the profession, and the demand for edition after edition of it, are taken as proof that such a work was greatly needed, and that it is finding its way into the hands of many of those for whom it was written. Grateful for this kind reception, and desiring to render it more worthy of the flattering commendations it has received, I have very carefully revised this, the tenth edition, and have also added a great deal of new material that greater experience and further reflection have dictated. I beg you to judge it, good reader, not by opening it here or there, nor by glancing at detached paragraphs; but read it through, from cover to cover, or, better still, study its pages, and thus qualify yourself to weigh correctly its teachings, which I would fain have to harmonize with the advice given by the Bishop of Lonsdale to those who came to him inquiring the way to heaven: "Turn to the right, then go straight forward." 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.