Excerpt from American Year-Book of Medicine and Surgery A special endeavor has been made this year, and Will be continued in the future, to place at the head of each chapter a summary of the more noteworthy advances and discoveries made during the year. These, we are assured, will prove of use to the reader in fixing in the attention the special trends of progress in such a vast mass of literature as appears each year in every branch of medical science. The ever-increasing difficulty of gathering this to a focus has its compensation in the con tinned and increasing success of the year - book, despite many formid able rivals. 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.