A treatise on gall stones : their chemistry, pathology and treatment. / By J. L. W. Thudichum.

  • Thudichum, J. L. W. (John Louis William), 1829-1901.
Date:
1863
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on gall stones : their chemistry, pathology and treatment. / By J. L. W. Thudichum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    PREFACE. If my own experience and reflection had not sufficiently impressed me with the sense of the intrinsic importance of the subject of this treatise, I should have derived it from the contemplation of the many eminent names which are inseparably connected with the history of its literature. When to the strong inducement thus afforded for its prose- cution was added the knowledge of the circumstance, that there had not been published a monograph upon it in the English language for upwards of a century, I conceived the hope that a work of that kind might be neither unseason- able nor unwelcome. The main doubts which opposed this hope in my mind had reference to the nature of the elaboration which I should be in a position to give to the matter, so as to ensure novelty and completeness while ex- cluding bulk and diffusion. I have endeavoured to meet tlicsc doubts by a conscientious performance.