Excerpt from St. Louis Courier of Medicine, Vol. 24: January-June, 1901 Comparing the records ofthe Maternity Hospital for the nine years preceding and the ten following the Change of treatment, we find that during 1875 to 1883 there were deliveries with 146 maternal deaths, that is per cent. During the last six months the mortality was 8 per cent., and during the last month it reached even 20 per cent. 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.

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Excerpt from St. Louis Courier of Medicine, Vol. 36: January-July, 1907 The management hereby announces that the st. Louis courier OF medicine has been sold to the Courier of Medicine Association, a company composed of a number of St. Louis physicians. The pol icy of the journal will be controlled entirely by physicians, and nothing derogatory to the interests of the medical profession and medical sci ence will be permitted to have a place on its pages. The same edito rial staff will have charge of the contents. We take this Opportunity in emphasizing once more the practical plan of the courier OF medicine. It is the object of the journal to present a digest of practical medicine. 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.

Excerpt from St. Louis Courier of Medicine, Vol. 12: July, 1884 Before closing what I have to say upon internal medication in diphtheria, let me call your attention to another law. Explanatory of what we all do when we give two or more remedies together, and that. Is that the simultaneous in uence of several stimuli, each of which. Separately. Excites the same centre. Is cumula tive; that is, stimuli assist each other, and their resultant is their arithmetical sum. 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."