Excerpt from The Medical Digest, or Busy Practitioner's Vade-Mecum: Being a Means of Readily Acquiring Information Upon the Principal Contributions to Medical Science During the Last Thirty-Five Years It has been urged that without the periodicals to which reference is made the value of the work is diminished. Although this is partially true, it must be borne in mind that most practitioners have some serial at hand, and, that by turning up the subject at similar dates, the infor mation required will generally be found, since the uniformity with which suggestions for any new treatment, etc, run through all the periodicals is most striking; still, for practical purposes, it often suffices to bring forward the fact that this or that mode of treatment has been found serviceable, and this a simple reference to the Digest will give. 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.