Excerpt from A Practical Synopsis of Cutaneous Diseases: According to the Arrangement of Dr. Willan, Exhibiting a Concise View of the Diagnostic Symptoms and the Method of Treatment To prevent any misapprehension in regard to the nature and object of this volume, itnmay be necessary to state, that it is not brought forward with any pre tensions to supply the deficiencies which have been left in the valuable treatise of Dr. Willan, or to be considered as the completion of that original work. Its sole purpose is to present an abstract of the clas sification pr0posed' by that respected author, toge ther with a concise view of all the genera and species, which he intended that it should comprehend. The materials for the description of the first four Orders have been iobtained principally from Dr. Willan's publication, of which the first part of this Synopsis may be regarded as an abridgment; some additional facts, however, have been supplied from subsequent observation. The remainder of the matter has been derived partly from personal experience and research, but principally from a constant intercourse with Dr. Willan, upon the subject of these diseases, during a period of ten years, while his colleague at the'public Dispensary, and from his own communications in his last illness, before he departed for Madeira, when he. 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.