Excerpt from System of Medicine, Vol. 1 of 3: General Diseases and Diseases of the Nervous System One of the contributors, Dr. Basham, was removed by death before he had completed his work, but I was most kindly and ably assisted by Dr. Frederick Roberts, in the anxious work of editing mss., which in some cases proved to be but half completed. To Dr. Growers, I am deeply grateful, not only for the very able papers which he has written, but also for his kindness in rendering me very great assistance in the preparation of this volume for the press. It is not a matter for much surprise that a work, which has taken so long a time to produce, by men who had already become eminent in our profession - the longevity of which is less than that of most - should not be completed until many of its contributors had passed beyond the reach of either our praise or our blame, and that they should not have seen the work, which they had done so carefully, placed in its proper niche in the edifice that they had helped to raise. To two Of these, Drs. Warburton Begbie and Sibson, I have made some allusion in my note of introduction to the fourth volume; of the others, from whom I had expected further help, I must say something here. 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.