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ticular course will be welcomed by an intelligent and inquiring Profession, whether such views be universally or only partially allowed to be just; and also that it may tend to promote inquiry in thoughtful minds; but in order to summarize the whole plan of treatment the various recommendations have been collected together in one chapter and given in an empirical manner. In reference to the author's special investigations, which have been embodied in the work, it is only necessary to ask attention to the explanation offered at the end of the work, in reference to a statistical inquiry of great extent, which was completed whilst the sheets were passing through the press.

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general and the early stage in particular, are cited; and whilst the author has not omitted to state his own views he has generally founded his observations rather upon the agreements than the disagreements of individual observers.

In seeking to make the work practical the author has entered largely into all the questions which relate to food, exertion, climate, and others constituting hygienics, because such is in accordance with general feeling at the present time; because this part of medical knowledge is now being placed upon the sure footing of scientific research; and because it must be through the conditions of the every-day life of the patient that medicinal and other remedial agents may influence the constitution in so chronic a disease. the same reason minute details have been considered of great importance, since it is upon them that the efficient working of a general plan will essentially depend.

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The arrangement of the work upon physiological and pathological indications and the use of propositions will, it is hoped, conduce to clearness of exposition and facility of reference, whilst it may also dissociate the consideration of the treatment from that of the evidences, and cause the same conditions or remedies to be viewed under various aspects. It cannot be doubted that assigning views as to the reasons for any par

ticular course will be welcomed by an intelligent and inquiring Profession, whether such views be universally or only partially allowed to be just; and also that it may tend to promote inquiry in thoughtful minds; but in order to summarize the whole plan of treatment the various recommendations have been collected. together in one chapter and given in an empirical manner. In reference to the author's special investigations, which have been embodied in the work, it is only necessary to ask attention to the explanation offered at the end of the work, in reference to a statistical inquiry of great extent, which was completed whilst the sheets were passing through the press.