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A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Skin: Arranged With a View to Their Constitutional Causes and Local Characters; Including the Substance of ... the Jacksonian Prize (Classic Reprint)
A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Skin: Arranged With a View to Their Constitutional Causes and Local Characters; Including the Substance of ... the Jacksonian Prize (Classic Reprint)
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I must confess, that thisdesign exhibits proofs of great zeal on the part of M. Alibert and for the information of the reader, who may not have had an opportunity of seeing it, a few short words of description will not be misapplied. The trunk represents the' head of the family des the branches'emanating imme diately from it, amountingto twelve in number, pass from it and divide into limbs and sprigs, each having its cognomen attached, according to the author's altered nomenclature. (the subject was already so seriously encumbered with designations without accurate definitions - with divisions and subdivisions into' Species under the old nomenclature, that students of the' subject had barely obtained a superficial knowledge of them; a few only perhaps arrived even at that, so that it is too much to expect that they will begin de now with M. Alibert's new nosology.
It will be perceived,l hope andbelieve, that these illustrations - this multipled nomenclature, these compli tises '0f twelve hundred pages octavo, 810. Will have served not'as assistants in my task so much, as by afiordin'g me to warn me of my pledge, to make my the reader. Despite the comparatively inexpensive labours of the engravers in France, I feel very strongly impressed with the Opinion, that by the judicious employment of those of our countrymen on a more limited scale, we shall be able to convey far more accurate notions of the characters of these diseases as' they occur among our selves.
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Product details
- Languages:
- Published: English , Original: English
- Number of Pages:
- 410
- Publisher:
- Forgotten Books
- Publication Date:
- 2017-11-15
- Weight:
- 699 g
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