Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, BY BOERICKE & TAFEL, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. SHERMAN & CO., PRINTERS, PHILADELPHIA, No apology will be made for introducing this work to the profession. It is purely clinical-a photograph of the everyday professional life of the physician. cure. The symptoms of the "CASES" were all taken down in phonographic shorthand, at the bedside, or in the office, or elsewhere, and generally in the patient's dialect if not verbatim. So that some peculiarity may be observed in most cases, and many times at the expense and in defiance of orthography, syntax, and prosody. The cases entire have been carefully copied from the original record, without addition, subtraction, or alteration, and no case has been omitted from the first date. to the last. All are there. Where the result is not recorded it is to be understood as a Great pains was taken to ascertain results, and verbal inquiries were made, and even letters written years after the treatment, for that purpose. In most cases, however, it was a matter of personal observation. In those cases immediately following the last date in this work, to wit, August 11th, 1854, and during the whole of 1855, and also 1858, there was a much greater proportion of SIMPLE AGUES than are recorded here. For 1853 there are one hundred and eighty-six cases recorded, and for 1858 one hundred and seventy-three. But it need not excite any surprise to learn this, for in ague districts, when ague is not epidemic, we rarely get a patient who has not been drugged with Mercury and |