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Excerpt from The Composite Man as Comprehended in Fourteen Anatomical Impersonations About twenty-five years ago the author was an ardent student of anatomy, and was ambitious to popularize the subject, believing that an intimate knowledge of the human organism would prove to be of practical service, not only to medical men, but to people generally, and with this end in view, for a number of years, he delivered a series of popular lectures on the structure of the human body, in a considerable number of communities adjacent to the city of Chicago. The audiences were always appreciative, but the task proved too arduous to be long continued, and the hope of popularizing the subject by means of lectures, at least, died out, until it seemed necessary of late years, for humanity's sake, to aid in unifying the medical thought of the times. Practical medicine has been split up into various specialties, each full of its own importance. Manual therapeutics has achieved a widespread appreciation of its own merits, and suggestive therapeutics has grown to such substantial proportions as to clamor for universal recognition, while the old, time-honored temple of medicine has industriously striven to meet the ever-changing and increasing wants of humanity to the best of its ability. Each means of cure has its appropriate field of operation, and all possible remedial measures that have been found helpful in the healing of the sick are sorely needed in the great campaign of humanity against disease and premature decay. 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.