Volume 4

Medical histories and reflections / [John Ferriar].

  • Ferriar, John, 1761-1815
Date:
1810-1813
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Medical histories and reflections / [John Ferriar]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. ee SSS ee Ir may be expected, by some readers, _ that T should account for the small a _ size of the volume, which I now offer a to their notice. The collection of 7 cases which it contains, appeared to ‘ me to merit an early publication, 7 without waiting for additional matter to swell the size of the book; utility therefore superseded the consideration of uniformity. It would have been easy to have extended the volume, by giving more diffuse narratives of the symptoms and progress of the diseases, but to this practice [ feel a great -repugnance: it leads to a waste of the reader’s