Excerpt from On Feigned and Factitious DiseasesN O labour has been spared in consulting the works of nearly every author who has written upon Feigned Diseases, or to render the rules for the detection of the simulation of disease, both generally and individually, precise and accurate; and for that purpose have been inserted, (so far as the author could learn,) nearly all the means adopted by impostors to favour their ends.Should the following essay serve, either to prevent the honourable physician from being made the dupe of the artful impostor, or guard him against judging too harshly in doubtful cases, and unjustly punishing the innocent; more especially, from being himself the in strument of punishment in presumed cases of malin gering, the object of its publication will have been attained.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.