Excerpt from Lectures on General Pathology: A Handbook for Practitioners and Students; Sections III-Vi; The Pathology of Digestion, Respiration, Urinary Organs, and Animal Heat The appearance of this, the second volume of my lectures has been delayed - much against my wish - by my removal to Leipzig, and also by repeated and prolonged illness. I cannot, unfortunately, hide from myself that, in spite of this long delay, the book now concluded is still incomplete. An exposition of the pathology of the sense-organs and muscular movements will not be missed, for no one will have expected me to include them in these lectures yet one section, and a most important one moreover, has been omitted, - the pathology of the nervous system. No one can regret this more than myself; nor have I been wanting in efforts to supply the deficiency. I have again and again applied to those who at present are regarded as the most distinguished authorities on nervous pathology in this country, in the hope that some one of them might undertake this section of my lectures but nowhere has my request been favorably enter tained. And not simply on personal grounds: I have been assured by all that a systematic exposition of the pathology of the nervous system is at the present moment impossible or at least impracticable. I am aware of course that such statements have only a relative value; yet this unanimity of the most competent judges has sufficed at any rate to deter me from attempting the thorough treatment of this portion of our science, not having at my command that most valu able aid of nervous pathology, -the regular observation of a large number of nervous cases. Thus I have been compelled, for good or ill, to publish these lectures in their present incomplete form. 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.