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LANE LIBRARY

By S. O. HABERSHON, M.D., LOND.,

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FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS; PHYSICIAN TO GUY'S HOSPITAL;
LECTURER ON MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS AT GUY'S; LATE DEMONSTRATOR OF
MORBID ANATOMY AND CURATOR OF THE MUSEUM; LATE PHYSICIAN TO THE CITY DISPENSARY;
FELLOW OF THE ROYAL MEDICAL AND CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY; ETC., ETC.

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LONDON: PRINTED BY W. CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET,

AND CHARING CROSS.

2816 HII 1866

PREFACE.

It is now ten years since I published some "Pathological and Practical Observations on Diseases of the Abdomen," a work in which I detailed the examination and investigation of numerous instances of disease; but it has since been intimated to me, that my own experience, without these pathological observations, would be useful to the practitioner, and in the present small volume, the result of many years of experience in hospital, as well as in private practice, is placed before the notice of my readers.

There are some truths which are continually impressed upon the mind of the physician, and perhaps none more forcibly than the importance of endeavouring to cure the patient, rather than of merely seeking to treat the disease. There is an unity of morbid, as well as of healthy action in the living organism, for one part cannot be affected without the sympathy of the whole; and thus, whilst the present work is exclusively devoted

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