Author : Joseph Coats
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780266936336
Total Pages : 1164 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (363 download)
Book Synopsis A Manual of Pathology (Classic Reprint) by : Joseph Coats
Download or read book A Manual of Pathology (Classic Reprint) written by Joseph Coats and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-29 with total page 1164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Manual of Pathology A desire has been expressed that this posthumous edition of the late Professor Coats's standard work should contain some brief indication of what he did, and what he was, in a life-time full of activity, but too short according to our human estimate for the tasks allotted to it. No more pathetic instance of frustrated hopes found than in. The simple statement that Joseph Coats, working life for nearly a quarter of a century towards a professorship of pathology, should have attained that official status barely five years before his death, and should have inaugurated a new pathological institute, mainly due to his own initiative and enthusiastic endeavours, on October 14th, 1896, to be used for only three seasons under'his direction, amid periods of ill-health, which ended in a fatal result on January 24th, 1899. The life that was thus closed, however, was one of remarkably sustained effort, and of absolute consistency of aim, from first to last. For more than twenty years before he became a professor in the University, Dr. Coats was the mainstay of scientific pathological teach ing in Glasgow. All his attainments, and all his resources, Were devoted consistently, and with marked success, to this one object; and the present volume, as well as the completed pathological institute which is now carried on by his successor, form the more or less permanent memorials of a life-time of arduous labour, carried on among the students of Glasgow University, by one who was as much respected by them as he was by those who later on became his colleagues in an official sense. As the oldest of these, a friend of Dr. Coats from his studentship onwards, and at all times working in co operation with him, I have been asked to write these few lines as a preface to his book. A more detailed notice of the man will be found in the British Medical Journal for 4th February, 1899. Here it is sufficient to recall in a few sentences what has a direct bearing on the present undertaking. 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.