Excerpt from The Necessities of a Modern Medical CollegeIn the early history of this country, and as late as fifty or per haps even twenty-five years ago, large tracts of sparsely settled portions of the United States presented conditions in which it was impossible for the thoroughly educated medical man to oh tain a just recompense for the time and money necessarily ex pended in acquiring his medical education, yet these communi ties required the services of a physician, and it therefore hap pened that persons with very slight qualification took up the practice of physic and endeavored to supply the demands of the community that was unable to obtain anything better.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.