Excerpt from The American Medical and Philosophical Register, Vol. 4: Or, Annals of Medicine, Natural History, Agriculture and the Arts In the review department, it has been a primary Object to present, as far as practicable, an ample and impartial view of all such works on medicine, and its collateral branches, as have appeared in this country during the publication Of the Register. We have applauded wherever it could be done with propriety, and have. Not omitted to express our honest disapprobation where we thought the occasion demanded it. For error in medical science is fraught with too pernicious consequences to be treated with complacency, however disagreeable to our feel ings may be anopposite course Of conduct. 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.