Curiosities of Medical Experience

John Stuart Mill · en
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CURIOSITIES OF
MEDICAL EXPERIENCE.

by

J. G. MILLINGEN, M.D., M.A.

SURGEON TO THE FORCES; RESIDENT PHYSICIAN
OF THE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX PAUPER LUNATIC ASYLUM AT HANWELL;
MEMBER OF THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE ANCIENT FACULTY OF PARIS;
OF THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF BORDEAUX; AND AUTHOR OF
"THE ARMY MEDICAL OFFICER'S MANUAL," &c.

SECOND EDITION.

REVISED AND CONSIDERABLY AUGMENTED.

IN ONE VOLUME.

London:
Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street,
Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty.
1839.

Whiting, Beaufort House, Strand.

  TO SIR JAMES M'GRIGOR, BART.
  M.D., F.R.S., K.T.S., &c. &c.
  DIRECTOR GENERAL OF THE ARMY MEDICAL DEPARTMENT,
  TO WHOSE ZEAL AND EXAMPLE THE MEDICAL OFFICERS OF HER MAJESTY'S
  FORCES ARE SO MUCH INDEBTED FOR THAT DISTINGUISHED
  CHARACTER AND CONSIDERATION THEY COLLECTIVELY
  AND INDIVIDUALLY HOLD IN THE ESTIMATION
  OF THE EUROPEAN ARMIES,
  THIS WORK IS INSCRIBED,
  AS A TESTIMONIAL OF PUBLIC RESPECT AND
  SINCERE PRIVATE ESTEEM,
  BY THE AUTHOR.

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.

The rapid sale of the first edition of this work has induced the publisher
to reprint it with considerable additions in a less expensive, and more
concise form--and the author embraces this opportunity, gratefully to
acknowledge the liberality with which it has been received, and the
indulgence shown to its many imperfections. At the same time he cannot but
regret, that in some quarters it has been surmised that he yielded
credence to the many strange relations which he has recorded from various
medical works, but which he merely narrated, to show the fallacy even of
experience, and the many dangers that may arise from the most ingenious
theories and doctrines, in the very ratio of their apparent plausibility.