Disease and Its Causes by William Thomas Councilman
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Title: Disease and Its Causes
Author: William Thomas Councilman
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Language: English
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DISEASE AND ITS CAUSES
by
W. T. COUNCILMAN, A.M., M.D., LL.D. Professor of Pathology, Harvard University
New York Henry Holt and Company London Williams and Norgate The University Press, Cambridge, U.S.A.
1913
PREFACE
In this little volume the author has endeavored to portray disease as life under conditions which differ from the usual. Life embraces much that is unknown and in so far as disease is a condition of living things it too presents many problems which are insoluble with our present knowledge. Fifty years ago the extent of the unknown, and at that time insoluble questions of disease, was much greater than at present, and the problems