Excerpt from Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences, Vol. 1: A Yearly Report of the Progress of the General Sanitary Sciences Throughout the World The order of the articles will be found somewhat unusual in i a few instances. This is due to the irregularity with which the contributions were received, some of those Originally placed at the beginning of a volume having been the last to arrive, thereby rendering it necessary to modify the sequence of the articles at least thirty times. It should not be inferred, however, that the last articles, as now presented, were the last to reach the editorial department, some of these having been drawn down by neighbors whose subjects could not be separated from theirs. The' general style of five of the articles will be found to vary somewhat from the general plan of the work. This Is due to the fact that it was deemed advisable in the first issue to treat a few subjects not usually found in text-books in extenso, in order to enable the subscriber to possess a complete review of the subject. 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.