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Excerpt from A Treatise on the Function of Digestion: Its Disorders, and Their Treatment But little more than a year had elapsed from the first appearance of this work when I received an in timation from my publishers that a second edition was required. I was then occupied in preparing a second edition of my work on Diabetes, and I pur posed as soon as this should be completed, writing an article on Food, to be added to the contents of the present volume. Finding, however, upon mapping out what I designed undertaking, that from recent discoveries so vast a field for discussion was thrown open, and that what would have to be said would carry me far beyond the Space I had originally al lotted, besides entailing an undesirable delay in the reappearance of this work, I resolved upon reissuing it as it stood, and bringing out my remarks on Food in the form of a separate work, in which I propose to treat the subject in detail under both a theoreti cal and practical point of view. 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.