Excerpt from A d104-Book of Pathology, for Practitioners and Students Tm: author, having taught Pathology and Bacteriology for thirteen years, endeavors in the following pages to present in a succinct, intelligible, and readable manner the facts that every student should know before he advances from the elementary to the practical branches of medicine. The work has been written particularly for students working for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, who need to acquire the principles of pathology rather than to busy themselves with the evolution of the subject or to enter into the con sideration of its controversial points. Well-known facts are, therefore, pre sented as such, while others are frequently dismissed after brief mention with the frank statement that the matter is not yet understood. Over-voluminousness was the greatest evil that had to be overcome in the writing, and what could be consistently omitted was a far greater problem than what should be introduced. The natural impression of the author was that nothing should be omitted but the size of the manuscript became, and after careful condensation remained, so large, that something had to be done lest its usefulness be destroyed. A kind of compromise was eventually effected by the use of two sizes of type, the more important matter being printed in the standard type and the less important in smaller type. The standard works have been freely consulted and drawn upon, though the names of the authors and the references to their writings have been for the most part omitted, as the work was not designed to be in any sense encyclopedic. The illustrations have been selected for the purpose of assist ing the reader to comprehend the text. Many of them are original, but the author has to thank the writers and the publishers of a number of well known books for their courtesy in permitting him to use illustrations from their works. The borrowed illustrations have been duly credited to the authors from whose writings they have been selected. 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.