Kidney diseases / by W.P. Herringham ; with chapters on renal diseases in pregnancy by Herbert Williamson.

  • Herringham, W. P. (Wilmot Parker), Sir, 1855-1936.
Date:
1912
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Credit: Kidney diseases / by W.P. Herringham ; with chapters on renal diseases in pregnancy by Herbert Williamson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    PREFACE I SUPPOSE that the uppermost feeling in the mind of a man who puts his work into shape is that he has produced after all a tissue made chiefly of holes, and that ever3rwhere he has left observations incomplete, and hypotheses unverified. That I think must always be. Man is the most difficult object in the world to investigate, and conclusions must often be left doubtful. Yet experunental pathology is not more reliable, though here the uncertainty lies less in the observation than in its application. Medicine must work by both methods, and clinical experience will always be needed. This book is the outcome of many years of work, and is drawn chiefly from my own hospital and my own wards. Of course, however, I am greatly in debt to the writings of others, especially in those rarer diseases which do not occur frequently in the practice of any one man. These obligations I hope I have acknowledged in the text. But the largest debt of all I owe to my colleague Williamson. I have always been interested in the