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 With a view to economise space, diseases which are usually treated of in Surgical works have been either omitted or very briefly described.

Exception may perhaps be taken to the absence of any attempt at a scientific classification of diseases. It was not without mature deliberation that the Author determined to discard the several classifications that have been adopted by medical writers, and to abandon the attempt to substitute a classification of his own.

From amongst the many sources from which the Author has derived assistance, he desires to mention in addition to syste- matic works, and special treatises on the diseases of tropical climates Dr. Morehead's Clinical Researches on Disease in India ; Indian Annals of Medicine ; Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta and of Bombay : and Madras Quarterly Journal.

BOMBAY, April 1864.