Excerpt from Handbook of Geographical and Historical Pathology, Vol. 1: Acute Infective Diseases
In laying down, now twenty-five years ago, a plan to be followed in the preparation of a Handbook of Geographical and Historical Pathology, I was fully aware of the difficulties that attended both the execution of the work and the introduction of it to the professional public; and, in the preface which I issued with the first part of the book, I spoke of these difficulties plainly and without reserve. The task that I had imposed on myself was not merely to collect and reduce to order an almost unmanageable heap of materials - for the most part a rudis indigestaque moles - and to test critically their authenticity and fitness; but it more particularly involved the founding according to a design, and the building up according to a system, of a discipline which had been the subject of but little labour before, and had still to make good its right to a place among the Medical Sciences.
The misgivings which those difficulties gave rise to in me as I approached the execution of my task proved to be only too well justified, in one direction at least, as the work proceeded.
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