Medical commentaries for the year Author:Andrew Duncan Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: TO THE Readers of the Medical Commentaries. Gentlemen, AT the commencement of the laft volume of thefe Commentaries, a change was made in the title-page... more », for reafons with which I reckoned it unneceflary to trouble you. When I then, however, affumed to myfelf the compilation of a work which had formerly been pre- fented to the public as coming from the hands of a fociety, I obferved that the execution of the tafk I had undertaken would not hereafter be more dependent on my own exertions than it had been formerly. And accordingly, I have not been difappointed, either in aid from corre- fpondents at a diftance, or in permanent affift- ance from fome medical friends at this place. Notwithftanding this, however, it is now incumbent on me to folicit your indulgence for the A 2 irregular irregular manner in which the publication has been conduced during laft year. This has in fome meafure arifen from circum- ftances which it was impoffible for me to prevent. But it has alfo, in part proceeded from my poftponing, on different occafions, the con- duet of this undertaking, to engagements of a more urgent nature, and which did not admit of delay. And although it is my intention to continue this publication with as much regularity as I am able, yet I cannot promife that fi- milar caufes may not hereafter be productive of fimilar interruptions. May I therefore hope, that you will neither be difappointed nor offended fliould fuch irregularities again occur. I flatter myfelf, however, that whatever irregularities may take place, will in no degree dimi- nifh the utility of this work. I am fully fenfible, that if the materials and opportunities of information which I poffefs, were in the hands of any one of greater abilities, and more leifure, the advantages to be derived from a ...« less