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Excerpt from The Treatment of Some Acute Visceral Inflammations: And Other Papers A acute inammation of one or more of the thoracic and abdominal viscera, 'usually bacterial in origin, confronts the practitioner of medicine almost every day and gives him many anxious moments. It is often fatal, cutting short many useful and valued lives, and thus causing the deepest sorrow and often also pecuniary disaster to individuals and to families. When not fatal, it may result in a condition of chronic disease and incapacity, the effects of which may be felt as long as the patient lives. 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.