Excerpt from American Medicine, Vol. 12: April-December, 1906 The New Series of American Medicine is inaugurated with the present number. Retaining all the professional, scientific, and literary standards it has always possessed in common with the high-priced medical journals, and offered at the price of one dollar 'a year, it creates a new field and meets a popular demand. Its patrons will find no abatement of its independence, and no lowering of the tone of its contributions. A number of new departments are in course of preparation, several entirely new in medi cal journalism; especial efi'ort will be made to attain the highest degree of concentration possible with general excellence, The recognition accorded the move ment even before the presentation of this first number is most gratifying, showing the existence of an esprit dc corps in the pro fession sufficiently strong to give its inde pendent professionally owned and controlled journals the widest circulation in the country. There is cause for general congratulation in this, since the development of professional solidarity signifies higher ethicality. So far as American Medicine shows the spread of professional feeling it deserves support; and, from that standpoint, those connected with it will work for its success as willingly as they will cease from their labors should ever a time come when there no longer is a work for it to do. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.