Excerpt from The American Year-Book of Medicine and Surgery, 1900: Being a Yearly Digest of Scientific Progress and Authoritative Opinion in All Branches of Medicine and Surgery, Drawn From Journals, Monographs, and Text-Books, of the Leading American and Foreign Authors and Investigators; Medicine Since issuing the year-book for 1899 editorial changes have been made in three departments: Dr. David Riesman has kindly consented to take entire charge of the section on Pathology, the removal of Dr. Guiteras to Havana rendering necessary his resignation as one of the editors of this department. Owing to pressure of other duties Drs: Griffin and Tilling hast have been compelled to give up the department of Materia Medica, Experimental Therapeutics, and Pharmacology. Subscribers are con gratulated upon securing Dr. Reynold W. Wilcox of New York and Dr. A. A. Stevens of Philadelphia as editors. Professor Abel has also found it impossible to continue editing the section on Physiologic Chemistry, and has suggested the engagement of Dr. Reid Hunt and Dr. Walter Jones of the Johns Hopkins Medical School, and these gentlemen have accepted the appointment. 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.