Excerpt from Pastoral Medicine
A perfect familiarity with the dead languages is a less common accomplishment nowadays than formerly; and in a treatise of so essentially practical a nature, requiring the utmost precision of expression, and wherein the slightest misunderstanding might have the most serious results, there would appear to be a almost a necessity for choosing the vernacular language as the vehicle of information.
As the work is addressed exclusively to priests and physicians, I have endeavored, with the author, to lessen the disgust necessarily provoked by unavoidable details, by putting them into a Latin disguise, when that could be done without any risk of misunderstanding.
Nevertheless, I reiterate, most earnestly and solemnly, that the work is intended wholly, exclusively, and entirely, for the professional use of whether priest or physician, and that it is altogether unfit for the perusal of the lay or general reader; as indeed must all works be, treating of similar subjects.
With regard to the translation itself, I have endeavored to make it a faithful rendering of the original. At first, indeed, I had contemplated making sundry alterations and additions, such, for example, as would naturally be suggested by a difference of country, customs, climate, etc., etc. But since the work is likely to find readers wherever the English language is spoken, I thought it best to leave Dr. Capellmann's work unaltered, trusting to the good-sense and judgment of individual readers to make any indispensable modifications suggested by the conditions we have referred to.
If this work should prove of some practical service to my clerical brethren, and to Christian physicians who make a ministry of their art, the somewhat difficult, and sometimes disagreeable, task of its translation will not have been undertaken in vain.
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