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Title: Papers on Health

Author: John Kirk

Editor: Edward Bruce Kirk

Release Date: May 21, 2007 [EBook #21560]

Language: English

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PAPERS ON HEALTH

By

PROFESSOR KIRK

Edinburgh

_NEW AND COMPLETE ONE-VOLUME EDITION
REVISED AND EDITED BY_
EDWARD BRUCE KIRK

London
Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent & Co. Paternoster Row

Manchester
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Glasgow
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Philadelphia
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1904

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Transcriber's Note: The topic of Throat, Sore (Clergyman's) includes
advice for enunciating the vowels in their natural order ([=a], ay, ee,
o, oo). The use of [=a] indicates that the a has a macron over it,
since a macron cannot be represented in Latin 1 character set.

PREFACE.

In his later years my father often expressed to me his desire for the
reduction of the eleven volumes of his "Papers on Health" to a compact
one-volume edition; but as long as fresh papers were being written,
he saw no use in beginning this work. In the end the project was
interrupted by his last illness and death. Since then, circumstances
have prevented the work being undertaken until the present time.

Having been associated with him in his health work for some years,
and having often discussed with him all his methods, I have had
considerable advantages in undertaking to carry out his intention in
the shape of the volume now given to the public.

It represents as nearly as possible the book he planned himself; and
though greatly reduced in bulk, all that is of importance in the
original eleven volumes has been inserted in it. It is complete in
every way; and in many details of treatment, improved methods, applied
in later years by Dr. Kirk, have been substituted for the older methods
he first introduce