Download or read book Doctors and Patients, Or Anecdotes of the Medical World and Curiosities of Medicine, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint) written by John Timbs and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Doctors and Patients, or Anecdotes of the Medical World and Curiosities of Medicine, Vol. 2 of 2 The ravages Of the small-pox might fairly be termed the scourge of mankind, and an enemy more extensive and more insidious in its warfare than even the plague. A family blighted in its various hopes, through this terrible visitation, was an everyday spectacle: the imperial house of Austria lost eleven of its Offspring by the small-pox in fifty years alone 3 the grand father of Maria Theresa died of it. 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.