Internal Medicine Vol. 1 of 3: A Work for the Practicing Physician on Diagnosis and Treatment With a Complete Desk Index (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Internal Medicine Vol. 1 of 3: A Work for the Practicing Physician on Diagnosis and Treatment With a Complete Desk Index<br><br>In the making Of a. Handbook of this kind it is necessary to draw at every step upon the great fund of acquired information which has become the common property of the profession. To those whose contributions have formed that fund and to those who are daily adding to it I tender grateful acknowledgment for its use. I have mentioned by name those to whose work I have especially referred but as a general rule it has been impracticable for want of space to append systematic references to the literature.<br><br>The illustrations are in large part drawn from personal observations. They have been selected solely with the View to elucidate the subject in hand. Diagrams have been employed when this method of presentation has appeared desirable and the free use of clinical charts constitutes an important feature of the work.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.