Excerpt from Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania, Vol. 13: At Its Thirtieth Annual Session, Held at Altoona, May 1880 As we hope that this meeting will be an important one, I will not detain you any longer, but will again say, we welcome you. 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.