Excerpt from The Practice of Medicine, Vol. 1 of 2 Thought that too dogmatic a tone has been adopted in the remarks upon the treatment of disease. But more than twenty years of daily observation have given me great confidence in the strength of the general principles which I have tried to inculcate in the fol lowing pages; and being thus zealously impressed, it is difficult (even were it advisable) to do otherwise than Speak positively. 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.