Excerpt from A Doctor's Viewpoint Such images permeated literature and made it mag nificent. The poetic temperament may a little regret the extent to which the modern science of preventive medicine has damaged imaginative literature, so that such sublime pictures as Milton portrayed, such su perb V1s10ns as Byron and Coleridge saw, cannot now get themselves expressed; and (since human interest depends largely on the extent to which events imagined may conceivably enter into human experience) would be little appreciated if they were published. We could not to-day enjoy, in quite the same way, another Masque of the Red Death, in which the bubonic plague was personified; nor another such work as The Wandering Jew, who personified the cholera that stalked spectre-like through three continents. 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.