Book excerpt: Excerpt from Twenty-Sixth Annual Report of the Presbyterian Hospital in the City of Chicago, With the Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the Ladies' Aid Society and the Sixth Annual Report of the School for Nurses, 1909 Rev john A. Morison, D. D. Rev. John balcom shaw, D. D. Rev. Martin B. Hardin rev. John timothy stone, D. D. 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.