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 now are in many ways different from those in