Excerpt from British Medicine in the War, 1914 1917: Being Essays on Problems of Medicine, Surgery, and Pathology Arising Among the British Armed Forces Engaged in This War and the Manner of Their Solution Harvey's injunction has been the watchword of British physiology and pathology. The principle it embodied was handed on by a long line of successors through Hales, Priestley, Young, and Hunter, to Lister, who, guided by the fundamental observations and doctrines of Pasteur, brought about by experiment and trial a revision of the institutes of surgery. The story in its main aspect is told by Sir Berkeley Moynihan in the eloquent essay, remarkable for its philosophic grasp, its learning, and its cordial tributes to the work of men of other nations, which forms the first chapter of this volume. 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.