Excerpt from The Birmingham Medical Review, Vol. 26: A Monthly Journal of the Medical Sciences; July to December, 1889 Not one of the least curious researches which might occupy us, a research even directly profitable, might be devoted to finding out how often in the records of our art some old, worn out notion, clothed in new language and coloured by the mental characteristics of its reviver, had been presented as new, only to meet its former fate - to be relegated to the land of the for gotten - perhaps to be again brought out and furbished up by some enthusiast whose energy overbalanced his acquirements. 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.