Excerpt from The American Monthly Microscopical Journal, Vol. 18: Containing Contributions to Biology; For 1897 Owing to the high death rate of these Indians from tuberculosis, he became interested in their vital statistics and published a paper in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal entitled "The Vital Statistics of an Apache Indian Community" in which their statistics for five years were compiled, and which is of interest as probably being the only accurate vital statistics of an Indian community ever published. From New Orleans, Dr. Borden was transferred to Fort Adams, Newport, Rhode Island, and from there to his present station, Fort Snelling, near St. Paul, Minnesota. Dr. Borden first began work in Microscopy when attending his first course of medical lectures. At that time a three years graded course of study and practical work in histology and patholog were required but in few of the medical colleges of the United States of which the Columbian University was one, and as he became interested in microscopical work, the graded course gave him more time to follow his studies in that line than was available to the average medical student. After entering the Medical Department of the Army he continued his microscopical work and soon began work in photomicrography. He is the author of a number of monographs on subjects connected with general and military medicine, histology, microscopical technique, photomicrography, and photography, and he is a member of the Associations of Military Surgeons of the United States, and a Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society of England. 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.