Excerpt from Journal of Practical Medicine, Vol. 11: October, 1900 The Back Bay district of Boston, an area a mile long by one-third of a mile wide, contains, according to an exchange, four hundred and one physicians and surgeons and one hundred and nine dentists. Of the doctors, two hundred and seventy-one have some specialty. The population of the district is twenty thousand. This gives a doctor for every fifty people - Medical Times. 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.