Book excerpt: Excerpt from Doctor Therne The importance of the issue to those helpless children from Whom the State has thus Withdrawn its shield, is this writer's excuse for inviting the public to interest itself in a medical tale. AS for the moral, each reader can fashion it to his fancy. 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.