Excerpt from A Practical Synopsis, of Cutaneous Diseases, From the Most Celebrated Authors: And Particularly From Documents Afforded by the Clinical Lectures of Dr. Biett, Physician to the Hospital of St. Louis, Paris There are no diseases that have been, and still continue to be involved in so much obscurity, as those which constitute cutaneous pathology. This appears the more extraordinary, as thereis no part of the system whose phenomena are morereadily observable, for they'manifest themselves in characters constant ly appreciable to the sight, and moreover, are so frequent that they are every moment presented to the observation: but is it not this very frequency and the facility with which their exist ence is verified, one great cause of the confusion which has reigned among'this class of diseases? Here, as in many other parts of medicine, the multiplicity of facts has only tended to encumber the science - can it be otherwise, when the same diseases observed at different stages are described as dissimilar affections according to the classification to which they were subjected, classifications in themselves defective and vicious; or are thrown together without order or any attempt to group them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.