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Show INTRODUCTORY. Being the first to undertake the publication, in this country, of a work like the present, we have reason to anticipate a favorable reception. The author, in this series of clinical histories, presents a resume, concise, yet sufficiently Comprehensive of the data of pathological anatomy of the principal diseases of the human body, as evolved from the great schools on the liuropean (,iontinent, and England, since the early part of this century, when modern medicine was established upon a solid basis, by direct clinical observations and postlethal examinations of the morbidly changed structure, up to the present time. Selecting many eases from standard works, and current medical literature, he made them the eentral portion of his text, and very carefully delineated the pathological features of the class of which each narrative forms a clinical type. The names of a great number of authors consulted by him and referred to in this work, are given on pages five and six as well as in the body of the text. The latest and the lirmest established medical facts are incorporated in the pathological and diagnostid parts of the work. profession, He endeavored chiefly to place before the portions of the vast collections of the labors of the great teachers, existing in the shape of highly instructive illustrated works, still only in few great 0 medical public libraries, and on the shelves of some few physicians peculiarly favored by good fortune, but inaccessible, by reason of their high price and the scarcity of published copies, to the bull' of the 1;)rofession. The undersigned have neither stinted the expense of reproduction, nor stopped at the question of cost of the whole make-up of the work. They only desire acknowledgment and appreciation by the medical public of what they have so earnestly striven to accomplish. THE PROGRESS PUBLISHING CO. CINCINNATI. Ulllt). |