Curiosities of Medical Experience
9781465521750
337 pages
Library of Alexandria
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TO SIR JAMES M’GRIGOR, Bart. M.D., F.R.S., K.T.S., &c. &c. DIRECTOR GENERAL OF THE ARMY MEDICAL DEPARTMENT, TO WHOSE ZEAL AND EXAMPLE THE MEDICAL OFFICERS OF HER MAJESTY’S FORCES ARE SO MUCH INDEBTED FOR THAT DISTINGUISHED CHARACTER AND CONSIDERATION THEY COLLECTIVELY AND INDIVIDUALLY HOLD IN THE ESTIMATION OF THE EUROPEAN ARMIES, THIS WORK IS INSCRIBED, AS A TESTIMONIAL OF PUBLIC RESPECT AND SINCERE PRIVATE ESTEEM, BY THE AUTHOR. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. The rapid sale of the first edition of this work has induced the publisher to reprint it with considerable additions in a less expensive, and more concise form—and the author embraces this opportunity, gratefully to acknowledge the liberality with which it has been received, and the indulgence shown to its many imperfections. At the same time he cannot but regret, that in some quarters it has been surmised that he yielded credence to the many strange relations which he has recorded from various medical works, but which he merely narrated, to show the fallacy even of experience, and the many dangers that may arise from the most ingenious theories and doctrines, in the very ratio of their apparent plausibility
