Author: George Bacon Wood

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-05

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 9781330751046

Excerpt from Introductory Lectures and Addresses, on Medical Subjects Being about to withdraw from scholastic medical teaching, the author conceives that this may be a proper occasion for publishing, in a connected form, the introductory lectures and addresses, relating to medicine, which he has at various times delivered. Most of them have been already printed separately by the several classes or societies before whom they were respectively read; but some of them now appear in print for the first time. Representing, as they do, the views and sentiments of one long devoted to the medical profession, and compelled, by the necessities of his position, to observe, investigate, and reflect upon the concerns of that profession in all its different relations, scientific, practical, ethical, and historical, they can scarcely fail to contain lessons, which may be more or less useful to the student and young practitioner. This consideration may, perhaps, be received as a sufficient excuse for their publication; but the author confesses that he has also other views. He wishes to bring himself again to the memory of the many physicians, some of them now no longer young, who have listened to his instructions during their years of pupilage, and to leave with them a memento, by which, when he shall be no more personally among them, they may now and then recall him to mind, with kindly recollections of former intercourse. Though the subjects are in a greater or less degree discursive, yet the discourses are so related among themselves, that they may be divided into groups, each having a certain unity of character or purpose; and the reader will notice that they have been thus arranged in the following collection. 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.