Outlines of general pathology

Front matter

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Preface

Having for several years been engaged in lecturing upon the Principles and Practice of Physic, I experienced the want of some work, in our own language, which would present to the student the facts scattered over many older and modern writers, a knowledge of which appeared to me calculated to facilitate the study of diseases. I was thus induced to apply myself to the production of such a publication; and, if I have succeeded in its execution, I hope that it may, as it was intended, enable the student more easily to apply his previously acquired knowledge of the principles of anatomy, physiology, and chemistry, to the observation of individual diseases.

It is difficult when entering upon the study of any science, especially one requiring so much caution and judgment as the treatment of disease, to know how and what to observe, and to draw correct conclusions from the appearances presented to us. The experience of others must at first be our guide; and to offer a compendium of general principles, deduced from the best authorities, has formed my present object.

Liverpool,

October , 1838.

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