Excerpt from The Canadian Journal of Medicine and Surgery, Vol. 16: A Journal Published Monthly in the Interest of Medicine and Surgery Our prisons have been improved. Our younger criminals have been cared for. Our insane have been kept off the streets. Our poor are being looked after, and now health and comfort go hand 111 hand. The true function of our study and deliberation is to pievent rather than to cure disease, and we are fulfilling our functions. But yet death reigns everywhere and at all times, and in all places, and we know it. But he is not the stalking giant that he was. He has been marvellously reduced in stature. Our medical press requires considerable regeneration. The articles published are not censored as rigidly as they should be. Much that is written and published is incomplete, speculative, and inac curate, and hence misleading. Our journals should be purely scientific publications, and not the hot - beds for the propagation of unstable theories. Looking back is not always a pleasant pastime, but there is a definite certainty about it that does not belong to the future. All that has been printed is liable at any time to be reviewed. 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.