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Excerpt from The London Medical Gazette, Vol. 1: Being a Weekly Journal of Medicine and the Collateral Sciences; For the Session 1839-40 Secondly, and a second and subordi nate but yet important object in detailing those facts, was to show, that, in addition to the means generally employed in the anatomical investi tion of organic dis eases more especial y, it was desirable that other and more accurate means, hitherto rarely resorted to, should be employed; and that for the examination, in partien lar, of that most common form of grave organic mischief. Namely, visceral h per tro by, the aid of instruments ulcn atcd to steet deviations as to weight and vo lume, was necessary to correct the ca ri ciousuess, and prevent the errors incl en tal to all estimates founded on simple inspection and manipulation of the via cera. The details of the facts on that occasion, adduced for the double purpose just stated, have been for some time in print, in the pages of the Manic. GA zz'r'ra (vol. Ii. 1838) and British Medical Almanack and require at present no further notice, probably, than the sum mary sketch of their character and scope above taken. 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.