Excerpt from A Lecture Introductory to the Course of Materia Medica and General Therapeutics, in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia: Delivered October 10, 1855 About one o'clock we returned to lunch, and found his spacious house, almost every room in it, filled with lady patients, from nearly all parts of Europe, waiting to consult him. By his politeness I was favoured with an opportunity of examining some of the cases, and of learning his views of their pathology and treatment; and, although I could not always concur with him on either of these points, it was gratifying to be made acquainted with his views, the more especially as they were peculiar to himself. 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.