Excerpt from Practice of Medicine: A Manual for Students and Practitioners To render this Epitome of Practice suitable for hasty reference by physicians, as well as for the use of students, it was deemed advisable in its original preparation to avoid undue curtailment of the most important subjects, such as typhoid fever, tuberculosis, and pneumonia. For this reason the necessary restrictions as to space were met by the exclusion of diseases of the pharynx, larynx, and tonsils, subjects which are treated fully in the companion volume on Diseases of the Nose and Throat. Under the headings of Diagnosis have been mentioned a few of the most important differential points of each disease. To Dr. D. T. Mitchell Prudden the author is indebted for assistance in the preparation of the introductory remarks on immunity. In the present revision the same principles have been followed as in the former editions. While the entire volume has been thoroughly revised, the principal changes have been necessitated by advances in the knowledge of infectious diseases and diagnostic methods. Partial reclassification of diseases and exclusion of obsolete material has permitted the inclusion of Acute Poliomyelitis. 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.