Copy 1, Volume 1

The study of medicine. Improved from the author's manuscripts, and by reference to the latest advances in physiology, pathology, and practice / [John Mason Good].

  • Good, John Mason, 1764-1827
Date:
1834
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Credit: The study of medicine. Improved from the author's manuscripts, and by reference to the latest advances in physiology, pathology, and practice / [John Mason Good]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    EDITOR’S PREFACE THE FOURTH EDITION. Wuen the learned and very distinguished author of the — Study of Medicine,” much to the regret of every lover of talent and worth, went to that bourn from which no tra- veller returns, he had already advanced a considerable way in preparations for a new edition of this his favourite pro- duction; one to which he had devoted a great portion of the latter part of his life. At the period of his death, he had revised all the five volumes, which the work then con- sisted of, and he had introduced into each of them numerous additional observations, tending to augment their utility and correctness. Various parts of the work, however, still de- manded further attention, and none more so than its surgical articles. It was under these circumstances that I was -requested by his family to make some arrangement with the booksellers, by which the third edition might be completed and published; and finding that Messrs. Underwood were ready to offer a fair consideration for the copyright, if I would give my assistance as editor, terms were agreed upon, and the undertaking was finished towards the close of 1829. After the failure of Messrs. Underwood, the copyright be- came the property of Messrs. Longman and Co., and the third edition having been entirely disposed of, a fourth has been called for, on which much time and labour have been expended. Subsequently to the date of the last edition, as it is scarcely necessary to explain, various important con- tributions have been made to medical science, bearing very materially upon some of the doctrines inculcated in the ** Study of Medicine,” sometimes corroborating, and, in A 3S