Excerpt from The American Year-Book of Medicine and Surgery, 1905: Being a Yearly Digest of Scientific Progress and Authoritative Opinion in All Branches of Medicine and Surgery, Drawn From Journals, Monographs, and Textbooks of the Leading American and Foreign Authors and Investigators Not only the year-book and its readers, but the American profession and people have suffered a great loss in the death of Dr. S. W. Abbott of Boston. His manuscript had been received and the proofs had passed through his hands before his death. His department in our work - that of Public Hygiene and Preventive Medicine - will next year be in the charge of Dr. John S. Fulton of Baltimore, at present the Secretary of the State Board of Health of Maryland, and Editor of the Maryland Medical Journal. Subscribers may therefore feel assured that the advances in hygiene will be perfectly collated and edited. Dr. J. Leslie Davis begins this year his connection with the work, in conjunction with Dr. Kyle, in the department of Laryngology, etc., in place of Dr. F etterolf who has resigned. In view of many works similar to this one epitomizing the advances made in Medicine and Surgery which have been undertaken since the year-book was started, it is a source of gratification to know that the members of the profession continue to show their appreciation of the con scientious and hard labor put into their difficult task by the departmental editors of the american year-book or medicine and surgery. With the unchecked increase of the amount of our literature the difficulty grows continuously greater of keeping the size of the volumes from becoming too bulky. 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.