Excerpt from A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Children IT has been some years since the third edition of Meigs on the Diseases of Children has been exhausted; and the frequent inquiries which have been made for the work, as well as the increasing interest taken by the profession In the study of the diseases of childhood, have led to the belief that the publication of a new edition would be received with the same kind favor which has. Been already extended to the three former ones. The changes and additions which were necessitated by the great ad vance made during the last decade in our knowledge of a number of the diseases of children, as well as by the unavoidable omission of any con sideration of several important subjects in the previous editions of this work, were, however, of so extensive a character that it has been found necessary to associate a collaborator in the preparation of the present edition. 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.