An further inquiry concerning constitutional irritation, and the pathology of the nervous system / by Benjamin Travers.

Date:
1835
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Credit: An further inquiry concerning constitutional irritation, and the pathology of the nervous system / by Benjamin Travers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    PREFACE. In offering this Further Inquiry to the pro- fessional world at so long an interval from its commencement, I do not deem it neces- sary to vindicate myself from the imputation of having pursued an idle speculation, be- cause I have no novelties of practice to sub- mit to its notice. So impressed have I been in the progress of the investigation with the importance of the subject, that my only re- gret has been that it had not fallen to abler hands, in which I am satisfied it might have been so treated as to have risen to the die- nity of a Discourse on the philosophy of Surgery. But notwithstanding the great ad- vances made of late years in pathological science, and the enlargement of our knowledge of the constitution and economy