Excerpt from The Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 20: Containing the Official Record of Its Proceedings, and the Reports and Papers Read in the Several Sections; Edited for the Association Under the Direction of the Board of Trustees; January-June, 1893 Read in the Section of Diseases of Children. At the Forty - third Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, held at Detroit, Mich, June 7, 1892. 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.