Excerpt from A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis by Means of Laboratory Methods for Students, Hospital Physicians and Practitioners The division of the subject matter into two parts - the first dealing with technical questions and the second with the collective presenta tion of the laboratory findings in the various diseases under their corresponding headings, which was first introduced in the seventh edition, and which the profession has found so advantageous - has been followed also in the preparation of the present edition. In the department of Clinical Pathology at the University of Maryland and College of Physicians and Surgeons of Baltimore the student during his third year is instructed especially in the technical side of the work, while in his fourth year, which is spent partly in the wards and partly in the laboratory, he is taught how to interpret the various laboratory findings. This division of the work the author would recommend to other teachers of the subject also, and he trusts that in presenting the subject matter to their students in this manner they may find the volume as useful as it was the writer's intention to make it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.