Excerpt from A Plea of Humanity in Behalf of Medical Education: The Annual Address Delivered Before the New-York State Medical Society, and Members of the Legislature, at the Capitol, February 6, 1849 Concealment, deceit, and false pretence, in some cases avowed, and extending even to miraculous clairvoyance, characterize their whole proceedings. 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.

Excerpt from Annual Address Delivered Before the New-York State Medical Society, and Members of the Legislature, at the Capitol, February 6, 1850 What the total amount of unnecessary, (and let me add as I be lieve, increasing) mortality in this State is, we have no precise means, of knowing. In England it is estimated that of deaths, only are from the decay of nature. Dr. Southwood Smith calculates the annual slaughter in England and Wales from preventive causes of typhus alone, among persons in the vigor of 11s, at double the amount that was suffered by the. Allied armies at the battle of Waterloo. In our Mexican war. 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.