The General Practitioner As a Specialist

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Dr. T. W. Williams, of Milwaukee, Wis., has contributed the chapters under his name, to whom inquiries concerning the same should be addressed. Continuing my former policy, I will be pleased to correspond or co-operate with any physician into whose hands this may come, recognizing the mutual benefits that...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Dr. T. W. Williams, of Milwaukee, Wis., has contributed the chapters under his name, to whom inquiries concerning the same should be addressed. Continuing my former policy, I will be pleased to correspond or co-operate with any physician into whose hands this may come, recognizing the mutual benefits that accrue from combined efforts and exchange of ideas, and that, if the fates so decree, greater good may be accomplished. ''For this was the manner in former time in Israel. for to confirm all things, a man plucked off his shoe and gave it to his neighbor.'' THE AUTHOR. Philadelphia, Pa. January 1904. chapter{{Section 4PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. The gratifying reception accorded the first edition of this work by the medical profession throughout the United States and Canada, as evidenced by the hundreds of commendatory letters received and the rapid exhaustion of the entire edition, has prompted the author, in preparing the second edition, to revise and considerably enlarge it. In addition to the matter contained in the first edition, the author has complied with the general demand for further and more detailed consideration of some of the subjects therein treated, and has, in addition thereto, added chapters devoted to the consideration of other specialties. During the past year the author has investigated and purchased a number of the more recent Secret Systems, advertised and sold to the medical profession, all of which are disclosed in this edition. The author wishes to acknowledge valuable suggestions and assistance from Drs. R. St. J. Perry, C. L. Dana, F. W. McCanon and E. L. Goodall; also from the writings of Agnew, Waugh, Monroe and others who have received due credit throughout the work. Thanking the profession for their liberal expressio...