Biographical Sketches of Distinguished Living New York Physicians (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Biographical Sketches of Distinguished Living New York Physicians As the author of this series, which is reprinted from the Philadelphia Medical and Surgical Reporter, has been the subject of severe remarks from some of the members of the profession, who seemed to have experienced much satisfaction in launching out invectives against cotemporaneous biography, he feels called upon to make a brief statement of facts by way of justifiable explanation. In the first place, the most cotemporaneous of all biographies is autobiography, and yet the lives of Haydon, Leigh Hunt, Benjamin Franklin, Romilly, General Scott, and numerous others, written in the middle voice, have met with a cordial reception and form the basis of delicious reading, for they are the result of personal observation, and, though some of them may have been posthumous, their very freshness is due to the force of the present tense. 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.