Book excerpt: Excerpt from The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 4: Devoted to Medicine and the Collateral Sciences; For 1847-48 Before entering upon a description of the diseases of those sections adverted to, we will take a brief notice of other causes and circum dances influencing disease, than those arising merely from soils. 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.