Recreations of a Physician (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Recreations of a Physician

Some of the following essays were read before difierent societies, and some of them have appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association and in the Albany Medical Annals. Many friends have desired their publication in a more durable form and upon these friends rests some measure of responsibility for the present volume. The essays themselves require little preliminary comment on the part of the author, who cannot hope to shelter himself behind his friends from any criticism that may be directed at the opinions that he has endeavored to express. These Opinions will probably be found on examination to be common place rather than startling, and more sedative than sensational, but the accusation of tedium also the author must bear alone, unless some legal provision may be discovered which will enable a process-server to cross the Styx, summon certain shades and compel them to accept service; for these are the gentlemen whose opinions the author has adopted and sought to present as his own. Indeed, a cursory review of these pages has shown him how much there is in them of others and how little of himself. He has been reminded of the novel by castillo-solorzano entitled El Besden vuelto Favor, in which the letter i is not to be found from cover to cover.

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