Excerpt from The Montreal Medical Gazette, Vol. 1: Being a Monthly Journal of Medicine, and the Collateral Sciences; April, 1, 1844 The Editors have determined upon making the present number the beginning of the series. This is the reason of the republication of the first portion of Dr. Spence's, and the entire of Dr. Crawford's communications. The number issued last month was but a feeler they beg to inform their readers, that they are actuated by the same motives, and shall be regulated by the same principles, as appeared in their prospectus. 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.