Excerpt from Essentials of Practice of Medicine: Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers; Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine What is meant by the principles and practice of medicine? By this term is meant all the knowledge which has been acquired of the cause, pathology, symptoms and cure of disease. What is pathology? Pathology relates to the study of disease, or diseased action dur ing life, and is divided into general and special pathology. 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.