Book excerpt: Excerpt from New York Medical Journal and Medical Record, Vol. 116: Philadelphia Medical Journal and the Medical News; A Semimonthly Review of Medicine and Surgery; July to December, 1922, Inclusive Professor of Obstetrics, Department of Medicine, Temple University, Obstetrician to the Samaritan and Garretson Hospitals. 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.