Surgical reports, and miscellaneous papers on medical subjects

Front matter

YALE

MEDICAL LIBRARY

The Bequest of SAMUEL C.HARVEY

Preface

Nearly all the papers in this volume have been printed before. They are now collected from a belief that some of them would be useful from the facts and tables they contain, and in the hope that all might be read with advantage by students and the younger members of the profession. It was even thought that they would perhaps be occasionally consulted by those somewhat advanced in practice, whose time was too much occupied to allow an examination of more extended works on the subjects of which they treat.

At any rate, their revision and arrangement for the press have enabled me to review a professional life of forty years' continuance, and thus furnished an agreeable occupation at a time when I did not feel capable of much rnental effort.

Boston, March, 1855.

Introductory Lecture on the Professional Trials of

the Young Physician, 404