Excerpt from Medical Priestcraft: A National Peril It is a strange coincidence that on the very day on which the letter was dated (january 19, 1907) when 'i resigned the membership of the Royal College of Physicians and requested erasure from the Medical Register, two letters were to be found in the correspondence columns of that day's issue of the British Medical journal, the one pointing out the terrible straits to which many of the rank and file of the' 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.