PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION 



Tin- opportunitj has been taken in this - od edition to elimins 



typographical errors and to alter the wording in certain cha 



there was ambiguity of statement in the Brat edition. 



eonraging reception afforded the \ < ► 1 1 1 m*- has fully confirmed the auth< 



conviction thai modern acquaintance with physiology i> fundamental 



tn Bound medical and surgical praeti< 



.1. .1 R M v i 



Toronto, Canada. 

 1919. 



PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION 



The necessity of allotting the various subjects of the medical eurrie- 

 ilium to different periods, so thai the more Btrictly scientific subj< 

 are completed in the earlier years, has the greal <li- that the 



student, being no longer in touch with laboratory work, fails to employ 

 the scientific knowledge with full advantage in the solution <»f his elin- 

 ical problems. He is apt to regard tin- first two or tlr in the 



laboratory departments as inconsequential in comparison with tin- sup 

 posedly more practical instruction offered during the subsequent clinical 

 years. He is taught by his laboratory instr tors 

 and to correlate the observed facts, so that he may !><• enabled to <1- 

 conclusions as to the manner <>t' working of the various fui the 



animal body in health, and before proceeding to his clinical b1 he 



is required to show s proficiency in scientific knowh 

 recognized that this must serve as the basis upon which his l 

 of disease is i<> be built When the clinic is ed, however, the nv I 



hi|n of the scientist arc not infrequently cast 

 of disease is nought for largely bj the empirical meth< 

 endeavor to see and examine innumerabl< 

 according to the grouping of the signs and h 

 the prescribed methods of experiei - • mucl 



much has to he seen during the clinical years, '1 



thought to iIk 1 nature of the functional disturb Mr 



fur the Bymptoms; he fails to realize tl 



