Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of Practitioners and Students of Medicine (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of Practitioners and Students of Medicine<br><br>This Text Book of Medicine was one of the great interests in his life; as he said it brought him mind to mind with members of the profession in many parts of the world. It was interesting to find the number of letters concerning it which he had kept. He regretted greatly the interruption in the usual triennial appearance of a new edition caused by the war. At its ending he turned actively to work on his part of the revision for this edition and had practically completed it at the onset of his last illness. It is a grim coincidence that at the time of my association as assistant author in 1912 he planned to give up active participation in the revision when he reached seventy years of age.<br><br>My association with the book began as a student in 1892 when the first edition was used as my text book of medicine In my copy of this edition are many additions picked up in the wards of the Johns Hopkins Hospital from the author himself. A study of successive editions represents a record of the advance of medicine during a period of nearly thirty years.<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.