On disorders of the digestion : their consequences and treatment / by T. Lauder Brunton.

  • Brunton, T. Lauder (Thomas Lauder), 1844-1916.
Date:
1886
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Credit: On disorders of the digestion : their consequences and treatment / by T. Lauder Brunton. 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. When I was requested by the Medical Society to j)ublisli the Lettsomian Lectures which I had the honour to deliver before it, I intended to print them alone. But on looking over them I found that in many places I had referred for fuller particulars to papers whicli I had formerly published, and it occurred to me that some who might wish to consult these papers would be unable to obtain them, and others might like to be spared the trouble of hunting them up. I therefore decided to reprint some of them along with the Lettsomian Lectures. These papers were chiefly read at different times and before different audiences, and contain the same ideas repeated again and again, sometimes in nearly the same words, ahnost ad nauseam. Indeed, if any one should attempt to read this book straight through he will probably throw it aside in utter disgust. But if he will only take the book up now and then at a spare moment, and read a single paper at a time, he may perhaps excuse the repetition, as it makes each paper more com- plete in itself. Moreover, the reason why certain ideas are repeated again and again is, that they seem to me very important, and I have decided to let the papers remain as they were originally published, without attempting to lessen the repetition, because I hope that the constant recurrence of certain ideas may obtain for them in the mind of the reader the same importance which they have in that of the writer.