Excerpt from The Medical Press and Circular, Vol. 132: Being the Incorporation of the Journals Hitherto Known as "the Medical Press" And "the Medical Circular"; A Weekly Journal of Medicine and Medical Affairs, From January to June, 1906 But first of all let us examine what are and have been the features which have distin guished the medical press and circular from other organs Of professional opinion. The chief Of these is its brevity. While other journals have been vicing with each other to produce a monster sixpennyworth, we of this journal have held on our way untempted to follow in their wake. If we were concerned with the management of a ladies' weekly or a review for idle people, we might be disposed to enter into this competition but as it is our business to cater for a profession of busy men, we feel otherwise. It is not infrequently our lot when calling on our pro fessional brothers to find piles of monster six pennyworths lying in a corner of the consulting room clad in their original postal wrappers. We have marked the lesson of those piles, and we have remained fixed in our resolve 'to produce a journal that will be read. 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.