Consumption: (phthisis) its nature and treatment / By John Epps.

  • Epps, John, 1805-1869.
Date:
1859
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Credit: Consumption: (phthisis) its nature and treatment / By John Epps. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    pages containing references illustrative of these thoughts. In this way the skeleton of the work now before the reader was completed. During the winter and the spring the author added to the work and wrote it out. In the autumn of 1858, overwork again necessitated repose, and the writer went to the seaside. He adopted the same plan, and revised the whole work while journeying. To remove every obscurity from and to abbreviate as much as possible the woi-k, the writer transcribed it a third time, employing as far as he could the phraseology not of technical science but of society. He has subsequently had it copied by another, knowing that the most effective mode to discover mistakes and inefficient and inexact writing is to read one's work dressed in another's handwriting. A physician's holiday may be regarded as not a very fit time to bring forth a book; but this is cer- tain, that had not the book been written under the circumstances stated, it could not have been written under the interruptions connected with professional duties, which occupy the writer from eight in the morning to seven and sometimes later in the evening. As to the value of the book itself, thus given birth to, the reader is the party to judge. The Index of the work and the Preface will give some idea how far the work has claims on the public attention. 89 Great Russell Street, Nov. 21, 1859.