Excerpt from The Asclepiad, Vol. 6: A Book of Original Research and Observation in the Science, Art, and Literature of Medicine, Preventive and Curative, 1889

The present volume of the Asclepiad differs from its predecessors in that the last part is addressed more particularly to students of medicine who are in their collegiate career, a change which more advanced students will, I hope, readily pardon.

In this volume the plan of distributing an essay on one distinctive subject through the four numbers has again been carried out, and having been favourably received, will be continued in the forthcoming volume by a revised issue of Reports of the Researches bearing on Therapeutics and Chemical Medicine which I had the honour to conduct during several consecutive years for the "British Association for the Advancement of Science." These Reports, which have never been collected into a series, except in Dr. Silliman's resume of them, now long out of print, will thus be presented in a convenient form for perusal, and will, I trust, satisfy a demand for them which I have long desired to meet. The first part of this series, to be published in the next number, - Asclepiad No. 25, - will include the record of the original research on the Nitrite of Amyl, and the introduction of that agent into medical practice.

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