Selected monographs : comprising Albuminuria in health and disease ... Some considerations on the nature and pathology of typhus and typhoid fever ... Moveable kidney in women.

Date:
1884
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Credit: Selected monographs : comprising Albuminuria in health and disease ... Some considerations on the nature and pathology of typhus and typhoid fever ... Moveable kidney in women. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ;•. , '*‘-4^%'(ii'’■/ TO HEBE EUDOLF VIECHOW, IN COMMEMORATION OE HIS SIXTIETH BIRTHDAY AND OF HIS TWENTY-EIVE YEARS’ WORK AS A TEACHER IN THE FREDERICK WILLIAM UNIVERSITY’'. Uniting, as I do, wifcli tliat large concourse of your admirers who now approach you with expressions of gratitude and every good wish, I should like, so far as lies in my power, to bear witness to the fact that practitioners also look up to you as their pioneer and mastei’, and that therapeutics, in the strict sense of the term, is not behindhand in gratitude and in the recognition of the enormous obligations, which it, no less than theoretical medicine, owes to you. It does not require my pen to recall these services to the memory of our contemporaries, nor to protect them from future oblivion, for so long as there is a history of medicine, the mighty epoch-forming impulse, which all branches of this science have received through you, will bo duly recorded in its pages. I will dwell only upon one point, which, in the abundance of tho meritoi'ious services now so vividly