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Excerpt from The Pathology, Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases of Women: Including the Diagnosis of Pregnancy The present work, founded on a course of lectures delivered at St. Mary's Hospital Medical School, is intended to form an introduction to the study of the diseases peculiar to women. The first and principal part is devoted to the elucidation of the diagnosis of these diseases, including the diagnosis of pregnancy; in the second part of the work the treatment of these diseases is considered. The primary object of the work is to afford increased facilities for diagnosis; and a peculiar arrangement of the subject, adapted for the purpose of carrying out that object in the most efficient manner, has been here followed. It may be necessary to explain why it has been thought advisable to give this great prominence to the question of diagnosis, and why other questions have been made subservient to it. Very little consideration will Show how completely subsidiary to questions of diagnosis are all others likely to present themselves to the student in his early attempts to investigate disease, of whatever kind, and wherever situate. In those admirable lectures on clinical medicine to which it was my privilege to listen, Dr. Walshe quotes the saying of Demosthenes. 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.