The intention is to focus on and integrate prevention into patient pathway to reduce decease progression, prevent complications and relapse as well as maximize coping and quality of life.
Often, eminent lords and knights at their decease would leave articles of their finery to their servants -- much of it unseemly for servingmen and women to wear.
The publication of this work was followed by successively enlarged and improved editions in 1802, 1805, 1808, 1816, 1818, and by numerous editions after the author's decease.