Excerpt from Transactions of the Section on Pharmacology and Therapeutics of the American Medical Association at the Seventy-Second Annual Session: Held at Boston, Mass., June 6 to 10, 1921 In this symposium we are attempting to determine the value of drugs in treatment. The degree of success which will be attained obviously depends on the Wisdom Shown in the selection of men to represent various fields of practice.' Needless to say, only those considered most eminently fitted to pass on these matters have been chosen. Before entering on more detailed considerations, a few moments might be spent to advantage in a general survey of treatment as it exists today and in a con sideration of the more important factors which have in the past, or may in the future, exercise a retarding or accelerating influence on the progress of treatment. 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.