Excerpt from Warfare in the Human Body: Essays on Method, Malignity, Repair and Allied Subjects<br><br>Men who have grown grey in those quarters of the City of Science, which are devoted to the service of medicine, are accustomed to the visits of strangers of diverse types. They have seen chemists like Pasteur and Lavoisier, and clergymen like Stephen Hales and Priestley, force their ways into their workshops, ultimately revolutionizing their industries. They are also familiar with the newly fledged student of first-aid, who breaks his way through the circle of spectators surrounding a street accident, and brushing aside the skilled surgeon, takes charge of the case. Occasionally, too, they come across those visitors who, letting their imagination rise on untrammelled wing, picture for them a future full of marvels. In Morley Roberts we have a visitor of a new kind - one who compels his imagination when in flight to observe the laws of gravity, time, and space. Nay, so like a native does this visitor carry himself, that for several years there were many besides myself that had no suspicion that Morley Roberts, the erudite writer on medical and allied problems, was the same Morley Roberts who is known in Bohemia as an artist of noted skill with pen and brush. In these essays he has earned for himself the freedom of the City of Realities or Science.<br><br>With one last word my privileged task of introducing the reader to these essays is finished. Their author has drawn large drafts on the Bank of Science I, for one, am willing to endorse his bills.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.