Excerpt from On Disorders of Digestion, Their Consequences and Treatment When I was requested by the Medical Society to publish the Lettsomian Lectures which I had the honour to deliver before it, I intended to print them alone. But on looking over them I found that in many places I had referred for fuller particulars to papers which I had formerly published, and it occurred to me that some who might wish to consult these papers would be unable to obtain them, and others might like to be spared the trouble of hunting them up. I therefore decided to reprint some of them along with the Lettsomian Lectures. These papers were chiefly read at different times and before different audiences, and contain the same ideas repeated again and again, sometimes in nearly the same words, almost ad nazwcam. Indeed, if any one should attempt to read this book straight through he will probably throw it_ aside in utter disgust. But if he will only take the book up now and then at a spare moment, and read a single paper at a time, he may perhaps excuse the repetition, as it makes each paper more com plete in itself. Moreover, the reason why certain ideas are repeated again and again is, that they seem to me very important, and I have decided to let the papers remain as they were originally published, without attempting to lessen the repetition, because I hope that the constant recurrence of certain ideas may obtain for them in the mind of the reader the same importance which they have in that of the writer. 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.