Excerpt from An Index of Diseases: Their Symptoms and Treatment The present volume is intended to facilitate the daily work of the busy practitioner; and especially to help him in successfully managing such cases of disease as do not yield to treatment so readily as might be desired. The student who wishes to learn the nature of the tools with which he will have to work, and the best mode of employing them, must seek for this information in other treatises. But it is hoped that the actual laborer, who has employed his customary weapons and finds himself baffled, will receive useful suggestions from the following pages. In constructing the various articles of which this Index is com posed, the Author has endeavored by giving a brief description of each disease to make its diagnosis sure. With regard to the sections on Treatment, it is to be remembered that the numbers appended to the drugs not only refer to the Formulae, but indicate those remedies on which it is believed that reliance should be chiefly placed. As a rule, however, most of the agents which have been recommended by different authorities are mentioned; although where they are not deemed particularly useful, either no reference is given for the mode in which they are to be prescribed, or they are placed in a separate paragraph. 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.