Lanterna Rally

Author: Provincial Medical and Surgical Ass

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-03-10

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 9780243888771

Excerpt from The Transactions of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, 1845, Vol. 13 In consequence of this arrangement, the principal duty allotted to me on the present occasion is to glance at the history of practical medicine during the past year, which, if not involving an equal amount of scientific novelty with some other branches of our art, is yet prior to all others in its claim to our interest and attention. Before, however, proceeding to the immediate business of the Address, I shall venture to solicit the indulgence of the Members to a few preliminary reflections. When we take an extended View of the progress of medicine, tracing it from its scanty sources in the most remote periods of society, and observe its course as gradually augmented by the stores of Grecian and Roman learning, obscured by the darkness of the middle ages, and again bursting forth in the copious and almost overwhelming streams of modern we cannot but be astonished at the rapid changes it has undergone, and at the develop ment which, in our own times, it has almost suddenly acquired. 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.