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Excerpt from The Virginia Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2: October, 1853 We do not intend, therefore, to imitate some of our contemporaries, who think it no deviation from modesty to recommend their own la bours, and believe that when they have contributed the results of their industry to their brethren, they confer an additional favour by inform ing them of their value. 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.