Principles of Treatment and Their Applications in Practical Medicine (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Principles of Treatment and Their Applications in Practical Medicine An apology may reasonably be looked for from one who ventures to write a book on the Principles of Treatment. In the present instance the Author has sufficient excuse for his undertaking. In the course of a long and intimate association with Students of Practical Medicine, he has come to realise more and more folly the immense difficulties which they feel, particularly the highly educated Students of the present time, when they are called upon to show an intelligent acquaintance with treatment. They may write a prescription with little hesitation; but as a rule they cannot give a rational account of the principles on which they have planned it. They fail to do justice to themselves, that is, to the immense amount of sound knowledge which they have laboriously acquired; and instead of pursuing the strictly scientific methods in which they have been trained, they too often resign themselves to the observance of some routine system of treatment which they have read up; for, however unwilling we may be to confess it, simple authority is still very largely the ordinary guide in medical practice. 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.