Excerpt from Practical Compendium of the Diseases of the Skin: Including a Particular Consideration of the More Frequent and Intractable Forms of These Affections; With Cases It is my purpose in the following pages to present a systematic view of the diseases usually regarded as belonging more peculiarly to the skin. It is not my intention, however, to enter into a par ticular detail of the symptoms, treatment, (sec, of every one of the species composing this class of complaints, many of them being of such rare occurrence, that, in this country at least, their names are all that are known to us. My great object will be to describe those cutaneous affections which I have had repeated occasion to study myself, and which are perpetually falling under the notice of the practitioner. Having had my attention particularly directed to this order of diseases from an early period of my professional life, and derived from my position during the last sixteen years as head of an establishment of fumigating baths, unusual opportunities of observing almost every variety of skin complaint in its most dis tressing form, I hold myself entitled to come before the public with something like a systematic View of this branch of pathology, whilst I present the results of my varied experience in regard to several of the more intractable cutaneous diseases, and offer some special remarks on the therapeutic agents which I have observed to prove of greatest avail in their treatment. 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.