Ben Clark Gile
Published: 2017-06-09
Total Pages: 490
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Excerpt from The Nose, Throat and Ear, Their Functions and Diseases: A Treatise Upon the Breath-Road, Food-Road, and Accessary Organs A number of text books have been published, both here and abroad. Much credit is due to their authors for fidelity and industry in collecting facts and, in some cases, for elaborate and instructive illustrations, anatomical and surgical. In the matter of systematic arrangement these works are open to criticism. In some of them logical plan is so completely ignored, that the order of chapters in the table of contents might be reversed, without affecting the value of the book. Even the various section's of a single chapter may be as separate and independent as the articles by different writers collected in some encyclopaedia of medicine. These books are indeed storehouses; but much like the freight room of a railroad, they contain articles of the most diverse character heaped together indiscriminately. The reader, striving to memorize the valu able truths presented, lacks altogether the aid of sequence and association and, unless specially gifted, he will forget more than he retains. In composing the following book, I have taken as my basis a few anatomical facts, which together with their physiological relations underlie the normal condition of the part of the body. 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.