Excerpt from The Therapeutic Gazette, Incorporating Medicine and the Medical Age, 1908, Vol. 32: A Monthly Journal of Practical Therapeutics No discussion of the treatment of dis ease can be rational or complete which does not consider the pathology of the affection. 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.

Excerpt from The Therapeutic Gazette, Vol. 11: A Monthly Journal of Physiological and Clinical Therapeutics; Third Series, Vol. III Pneumatotherapy, steadily growing in favor as the number of physicians resorting to it increases, bids fair to assume at last its proper position among the resources of med ical art. It can only be damaged, not bene fited, by a tendency to indulge in extravagant claims and reckless assertions. There is nothing mysterious about it, - no miracle, no witchcraft. It has its applications and its limitations, and these are exact and Capable of determination, almost with mathematical precision. In practice, the benefits to be derived from it will depend upon its artistic employment, - as the result upon a canvas depends not on the chemical nature of the pigments, but upon the skill with which they are laid on. 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.

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