PREFACE 



OHORTLY after it was determined to celebrate the 

 ^"-^ Four Hundredth Anniversary of Aberdeen University 

 in 1906, the notion occurred to several of the medical graduates 

 in London that a fitting tribute to the occasion would be the 

 publication of a volume of original researches, in the domain 

 of Pathology, written by those who had graduated since the 

 foundation of the Chair of Pathology in 1882. The occasion 

 seemed all the more appropriate for such commemoration, seeing 

 that Professor Hamilton, under whose tuition the above 

 graduates received their primary instruction, has all but com- 

 pleted a quarter of a century's tenure of office. A movement 

 was started to sound our graduates holding appointments in 

 Pathology as to how far they were in sympathy with the 

 proposal, and the researches contained in this volume are the 

 responses to that appeal, and are evidence of the feeling that 

 prevailed among them, both for their Alma Mater and their 

 teacher in Pathology. All the researches in the volume were 

 specially written for it, and the cost of production has been 

 defrayed by the contributors. It remains for the Editor to 

 acknowledge, with deepest gratitude, the self-imposed labours 

 of our University Librarian, Mr. P. J. Anderson, who, to all 

 intents and purposes, passed the volume through the press. 



W. B. 



London, July, igo6. 



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