Excerpt from The American Journal of Insanity, 1871-72, Vol. 28 I too have sat by the bright blaze Of the large Old fire-place, and listened with childish wonder to the sim ple legends, mingled with much Of superstition and awe, which pass from the Old to the young, and know the dread and innate antipathy existing towai ds every thing which seems to desecrate the remains Of the dead. And yet with the difficulties arising from exhausting labor on the one hand and superstition on the other, we contend the country practitioner allows to pass too easily from his grasp the Opportunities for pathological research. The rich fields which present themselves to his experience lie too Often ungarnered and neglected. Fatigue should be forgotten in the zest for research, and prejudice overcome in the earnest claim that death, to the true student in his profession, but Opens the portals to those mysterious labyrinths where disease with its protean workings is ever weaving deadly meshes, but where too, by reflected light, he may learn either how calamity may be averted, or at least, procrastinated to the future. 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.