Excerpt from The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery, Vol. 13: Being a Half-Yearly Journal, Containing a Retrospective View of Every Discovery and Practical Improvement in the Medical Sciences, January to July, 1846Tm: practical use of medical knowledge consists, generally, in the facility and rapidity with which it.can on any occasion be brought to bear on a given case. A man may be able to write an elaborate treatise on any medical sub ject, and yet, in a case of emergency or complexity, he may he totally unable to bring the stores of his mind into practical application at the moment when he is most in need of his knowledge. For this reason, we have adopted a new plan in the present volume, at the end of which we have compiled a.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.