Excerpt from The Field of Disease: A Book of Preventive Medicine

The prevention, no less than the cure of disease, is now understood to belong to the function of the physician, to whom alone the public can look for protection as well as for rescue. As the author very truly says: "The conception that these afflictions can be prevented is of modern times, and indeed we may say practically of the present century, or even of the later two-thirds of the present century, " and it would seem that the time had now come in which the results of the investigations and experience as to the relations between health and disease should be summed up, not only for present use but as a starting-point for further acquisitions in this supremely important field of knowledge.

Although Dr. Richardson assumes that the present volume is intended primarily for the public, the publishers have, for the reason just stated, no hesitation in laying it before the profession, being advised that it contains much with which every physician should be familiar, while there is no work in the language in which the information hero presented can be sought, systematically arranged, and intelligibly presented.

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