T. J. ASHTON, FORMERLY SURGEON TO THE BLENHEIM DISPENSARY, FELLOW OF THE ROYAL MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY, MEMBER OF THE PATHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, HARVARD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE A PUBLIC HEALTH LIBRARY 16.J.1865.1 PHILADELPHIA: COLLINS, PRINTER, 705 JAYNE STREET. PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION. THIS edition has been carefully revised, and some portions rewritten, with further observations and cases added, for the purpose of more fully elucidating the etiology, pathology, and treatment of this important class of diseases, and rendering the work still more worthy of the position accorded to it by the Profession. 31 CAVENDISH SQUARE, 1863. |