Excerpt from A Text-Book of Pathology for Students of Medicine In any department of science the multitude of observable facts quickly overwhelms the mental capacity of the beginner. Hence it becomes the instructor's duty to classify and correlate them for the student's easier comprehension, and eventually to teach him to apply the same principles in his independent observations of the concrete. Ability to recognize individual pathological phenomena is of prime importance, but the power to grasp the meaning of the general laws according to which tissues act and react is paramount. In this the second edition of our text-book the reader will find that continued emphasis is placed upon the reasons underlying patho logical conditions; although we trust the facts themselves have not been neglected. Careful attention has been given, in the revision of each subject, that it should include all reliable advances that the past two years have brought forth. A new chapter on The More Impor tant Infections and Their Prominent Features, has been inserted. In this we have attempted to marshal under one head information that in the previous edition was widely scattered, together with the addition of necessary new material. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.