ITS NATURAL HISTORY AND

PATHOLOGY

BEING THE MILROY LECTURES FOR 1898

DELIVERED BEFORE THE ROYAL COLLEGE
OF PHYSICIANS OF LONDON

BY

S. MONCKTON COPEMAN

M.A., M.D. CANTAB., M.R.C.P. LOND.

MEDICAL INSPECTOR TO HER MAJESTY'S LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD; LECTURER ON
PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE MEDICAL SCHOOL OF WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL; FOREIGN
SECRETARY AND MEMBER OF COUNCIL OF THE EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF
LONDON; FORMERLY RESEARCH SCHOLAR OF THE BRITISH MEDICAL
ASSOCIATION, AND SCHOLAR AND EXHIBITIONER OF CORPUS

CHRISTI COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE

London

MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED

NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1899

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