Excerpt from Medicine of the Future: An Address Prepared for the Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association in 1886 Sir James Paget, in his inaugural address at the opening of the International Medical Congress in 188 I, expressed his belief that the progress of science in the last fifty years was twice as great as that in the previous fifty, and that the rate of progress should constantly increase. If the latter belief be in accordance with the order of Providence, how interesting will be the retrospections of half a century. 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.