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Excerpt from On the Pathology and Treatment of Gonorrhea Whether the attempt 'now made to prove that gonorrhoea may, when admitting of removal, be cured without the use of the so-called specifics, is based on sufficient grounds or not, it would ill become me to say. This much, however, I can vouch for; the doctrines I have ventured to lay down havebeen pretty severely tested. Nothing has been recommended by myself in this work but what has stood the brunt, not merely of experience, for that I rate rather low, but of special observation. My aim was, as far as possible, to separate clearly what might be looked on as established from what was doubtful, and not merely to prove every assertion, but to place it on such a basis that it could rot be disproved; How far I have succeeded I leave to the decision of my readers. For the remedies advised, or the views up held, by other authors, I do not hold myself answerable. I considered my task was to select what seemed most likely to improve treatment, and only hope I have executed it in a satisfactory way. That such a work was needed is proved by its steadily increasing sale among the profession; that the mode of examining the thera peutie action of remedies, adopted in it from the very first, was sound, is shown by so many authors having testified to the accuracy of the results obtained, as also by the British 'medical Association having appointed a committee to carry out the same method, but, with all deference be it said, in a much less exact and complete shape. 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