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Vol. XI

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THE BULLETIN IN 1897

HE AMERICAN MEDICO-SURGICAL

BULLETIN, in beginning this, its

tenth year, comes before its

many readers in a somewhat new form. We have no doubt but that as it now appears, it will not only please our present host of subscribers, but likewise win many more new ones. Never before in medical journalism has so much choice mental pabulum been offered to the profession at so low a price. A glance at the contents of our present issue will convince all that it reflects in the most perfect manner possible the medical thought and scientific medical work of the present hour as no other journal has done or attempted to do.

Beginning with this number, our editorial pages will contain, in each issue, expressions of the most recent constructive

thought in medical science, suggestions for the reform of abuses in practice that injure the general practitioner, references to the most important new discoveries influencing the progress of medicine, or matters of general interest to all our readers. We intend to make the BULLETIN in the future, as it

has been in the past,

"A champion brave, alert and strong To aid the right, oppose the wrong." We hope in doing this to merit the confidence which the profession will surely bestow upon us so long as we are in the

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right. In a policy that is aggressive, we will aim at tempering every utterance with charity and gentleness. No warfare will be waged against men or societies, but only against bad principles.

Our department devoted to cullings from the leading editorials of our American contemporaries, will show our readers what their professional brethren are thinking and talking about all over this broad land. The editors are in close touch with the ideas and sentiments of their subscribers. Where they happen not to be, natural selection usually adjusts the matter in time. Those who do not agree with them on such important. issues as they may raise, generally drop their subscriptions and gravitate to journals that suit them better. Thus it is that a journal reflects fairly well the sentiments of its readers as well as of the editor. As we desire to do full justice to all sides on every great question that may arise, it is clear that we cannot hold ourselves responsible for all ideas these editorial cullings may contain. They will be the sentiments of the journal to which credit is given, and not our own. In selecting them we shall always seek to choose such as fairly represent the best products from the journals quoted. In this way our readers can likewise form some idea of the character and ability displayed in the management of all the principal medical journals of our country.

Our original abstracts will be drawn from