Excerpt from Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences, Vol. 1: A Yearly Report of the Progress of the General Sanitary Sciences Throughout the World All the improvements introduced into the 1889 issue have been continued, the patrons of the work having expressed their approval of them. The general index, however, has been made somewhat less bulky, the difficulty experienced in finding a desired heading having rendered this advisable. It will be found, however, that the shortening has mainly been done by avoiding blank spaces and concentrating lines. It is with deep sorrow that the editor is compelled to record the death of Dr. Charles L. Weed, associate editor in the department of Otology. Dr. Weed was as faithful to his duties as he was true to his friends. 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.