Excerpt from The Asclepiad, Vol. 4: A Book of Original Research and Observation in the Science, Art, and Literature of Medicine, Preventive and Curative

In this volume of The Asclepiad, published during an exceptional year, an exceptional variation has been introduced in one part, that, namely, which has been devoted to a review of medicine in the Victorian era. The numerous congratulations received in regard to this innovation may tempt me, on fitting occasions in the future, again to devote one whole number to some one particular subject.

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