Biographical Memoir of John Shaw Billings, 1838-19l3 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Biographical Memoir of John Shaw Billings, 1838-19l3 Hospital service gave him what the imperfect medical teach ing of that day did not give, and, as demonstrator of anatomy, he prepared himself for surgical practice, which was to find its opportunities in the clinics of the battlefield. 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.