Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Physical and Medical Topography: Including Vital, Manufacturing and Other Statistics, of the City of Wheeling
From the date of the earliest Egyptian records, when priests - who were the depositaries of all knowledge - employed magical incanta tions for the cure of the sick, to the present when no calling repte sents more fully or honorably than the science of medicine the intel lectual tendency of the times and a fairer average measure of the ad vancement which is occurring all round us, the prevention of disease and the amelioration of human suffering has been the highest mission of medical knowledge.
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