« The practice of medicine in regard to these diseases has experienced a 



reformation so essentially necessary to meet their altered character, that it is not too 

 much to say, tlie 'mode of cure' set down for them in works but a few years old is 

 found at the present day, in comparison with the new one, to be not only inapplicable, 

 but positively harmful." — 'Preface. 



