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.