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Excerpt from Diseases of the Intestines, Vol. 2 of 2: Their Special Pathology, Diagnosis, and Treatment; Appendicitis, Tuberculosis, Syphilis, Actinomycosis of Intestine, the Occlusions, Contusions, Rupture, Enterorrhagia, Intestinal Surgery, Atrophy, Abnormalities of Form and Position In the second. Volume of Diseases of the Intestines are embraced those pathological conditions that occupy the border-land between internal medicine and surgery. The modern evolution of the exact methods of clinical diagnosis, relating to many diseases of the human body, can not but command universal admiration; but the technics of the microscope, and chemical as well as physio logical investigation, have as yet left large vacancies in the pathology of the intestinal function; and where these exact methods desert us, there is but one beacon light for the general practitioner, and that is clinical experience. 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.