Excerpt from Lectures on the Diseases of Infancy and Childhood A moment's satisfaction may be pardoned me in thank fully acknowledging these evidences that my toil has not been fruitless. But it is with no feeling of flattered vanity that I now lay down my pen. The revision in mature age of the labours of one's youth must, with most persons, minister to self-reproach rather than to self-satisfaction. The same unsolved problems meet one's eye now as met it years ago one's deficiencies are felt more deeply; they seem graver and less excusable as the time for remedying them passm by; one longs for the leisure gone, for the energies of former years, which one fancies, coupled with the sober ness of advancing life, might help to add something more and better to the common store of knowledge. I can for my part say most honestly, that nothing will give me greater pleasure than to see some younger man, better furnished for the task than I was, devote himself to the cultivation of that field where I have laboured. No one would greet the skilled husbandman more heartily than I. 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.