Volume 1
A system of practical medicine / by American authors ; edited by William Pepper ; assisted by Louis Starr.
- Date:
- 1885-1886
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A system of practical medicine / by American authors ; edited by William Pepper ; assisted by Louis Starr. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![PREFACE. The present work has been undertaken in the belief that hy obtain- ing the co-operation of a considerable number of physicians of acknow- ledged authority, who should treat subjects selected by themselves, there could be secured an amount of practical information and teaching not otherwise accessible. It was determined to restrict the selection of authors to those of this country—including Canada—not from any want of recognition of the importance of the studies of certain special sub- jects by European investigators, but because it was felt that the proper time had arrived for the presentation of the whole field of medi- cine as it is actually taught and practised by its best representatives m It is a matter of importance also that a comprehensive study shall be made of the various forms of disease as occurring among our highly composite population and under our varied and peculiar climatic influ- ences. Of course, in the present work comparative studies of this kmd must occupy a subordinate position; yet it cannot fail to enhance both its interest and its value to have the various forms of disease as th y occur in this country discussed by those among us who are confessedly the most competent and experienced. The force of these observations must have been ^^^^ '.y the d^^^^^^^^ guished men to whom I made application for With --f ^ ^ f J^^^^^^^^ fheyjoined cordially in the laborious undertaking. ]^^J^ pleasure in testifying to the courtesy wHch has marked all ^^^^ and which has lessened materially the labor and strain inevitable revision of tl. large amount of proo. same purpose. i^j^ to the general](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20415023_001_0009.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
