Excerpt from North Carolina Medical Journal, Vol. 30: July, 1892 From the great number of affections to which this organ is subject I have selected one for your consideration with which you are clinically very familiar, but perhaps deem as quite insignificant. It is a disease prevalent among the barbaric as well as civilized peoples, and no condition of humanity, land or clime can claim immunity. It finds its victims among the devotees of science, literature and art, as am on g the army of hard toiling bread-winners the latter not infrequently reduced to absolute penury - becoming pensioners upon Christian charity because Of this infirmity. Yes, the sceptered monarch and humble peasant Share alike the inevitable tortures of this disease - Hemorrhoids. 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.