Book excerpt: Excerpt from Forty-Fifth Annual Report of the Presbyterian Hospital of the City of Chicago, 1927: With the Forty-Fourth Annual Report of the Woman's Auxiliary Board and the Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the School of Nursing Class 1931 john B. Lord james A. Patten frank S. Shaw john W. Scott alfred T. Carton robert stevenson, jr. 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.