The Stomach and Its Difficulties (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Passibus wguz's, the example of my first surgical instructor, Sir Benjamin Brodie; who, when I expressed my Opinion that his lectures were greatly prized by my fellow-pupils even forty years ago, replied, I have myself wondered that, with so little experience as I then had, my lec tures should have been popular with the students. I believe the explanation is, that although I had not much information to give, what I did give was drawn chiefly from my own written notes of cases, so that I communicated my own knowl edge, and not that Copied from books. It may be said that the style of my work is not sufii ciently grave, and that the introduction of a' lively anecdote is hardly defensible, when treat ing on the serious subject of human disease, and also that the rules which are here laid down for the preservation of health are so stringent that it will be impossible to carry them into practice. To the first objection I would reply that man's nature must be changed, before he who is daily and hourly thankful for being (physically) not as some other men are, can not only think, but speak and write from the impulse of his contented, nay, cheerful mind.

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