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Excerpt from The Causation of Disease: An Exposition of the Ultimate Factors Which Induce It In writing a work of this kind two courses are open to the author. One is to saturate himself with all the available litera ture on the subject, and, having done so, to connect into an intelligible whole the facts and opinions thus gleaned, adding, amending, and omitting as may seem fit. The other is for him to think the subject out independently from beginning to end, and to draw upon the resources of literature only just so far as apposite matter may chance to present itself in the ordinary course of his reading, or as his line of thought may from time to time suggest some special reference. I have adopted the latter course, not, indeed, from any preconceived plan, but rather from the force of circumstances, which led me in the first instance to think out the subjects here treated of for my own personal benefit. 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.