Excerpt from The British Medical Journal, Vol. 2: Being the Journal of the British Medical Association It seems, also, to speak strongly in favour of the use of the solution of nitrate of silver, here used with glycerine, as recommended by Dr. G. Johnson in his lectures to the Royal College of Physicians. 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.