Excerpt from Elements of Medicine: A Compendious View of Pathology and Therapeutics, or the History and Treatment of Diseases IN preparing for the press a second edition of my Elements of Medicine, I have gladly availed myself of the notices of the work contained in the journals at the time of its appearance. I take this occasion to acknowledge, with much gratification, their almost uni formly courteous tenor. I have endeavored to supply the defects pointed out, to remove redundancies indicated, and to correct such errors as were commented on by my friendly critics, or discovered on my own part after the most careful revision. 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.