Excerpt from Transactions of the Clinical Society of London, Vol. 5 To turn more especially to the object of our work, the living body. - There is no doubt but that it is of the first im portance for practice to obtain the largest and truest view of all the bearings of the subject. One of the greatest advances in clinical medicine, and which is daily growing, is the more thorough physiological view of disease. Disease is not now regarded as some independent entity in the body, but as a perversion of those essential life conditions which when normal constitute the state of health We can no longer regard all diseases as grafts on healthy parts. The time is gone by when text-books could teach what I and probably many others here had to learn - that acute disease may be idiopathic in healthy subjects. 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.