Excerpt from The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery, Vol. 12: Being a Half-Yearly Journal, Containing a Retrospective View of Every Discovery and Practical Improvement in the Medical Sciences, July-December, 1845Inonrnextvolnmewehope tobe ableto give anotherge-eral Indatothe preceding four volumes of the Retrospect, which, with the one in Vol. 9, will enable the reader to turn to almost every article of practical value published since the year 1840.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.