ENGLISH SANITARY INSTITUTIONS, REVIEWED IN THEIR COURSE OF DEVELOPMENT, AND IN SOME OF THEIR POLITICAL AND SOCIAL RELATIONS: BY SIR JOHN SIMON, K.C.B. CONSULTING SURGEON AND PAST SENIOR SURGEON TO ST THOMAS'S HOSPITAL; PAST PRESIDENT (NOW HON. MEMBER) OF THE PATHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON; FORMERLY THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HER MAJESTY'S PRIVY COUNCIL, SECOND EDITION. < THE UNIVERSITY г LONDON: SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE. 1897. [All rights reserved.] PREFACE ΤΟ THE SECOND EDITION. IN preparing this later edition of my ENGLISH SANITARY INSTITUTIONS, I have made in the text only a very few corrections and slight additions, so that, thus far, the work is in substance almost textually a reprint. At various places, however, I have inserted (in brackets) a few words of notice with regard to former fellow-workers, chiefly those who have died during the past eight years; and also I have added two Appendices. The first of these is a paper which I wrote in 1894, for the purpose of somewhat extending the short reference I had made (at page 5 of the book) to our knowledge of the Early Relations of Human Life in the world. The other is a paper which I wrote in the autumn of 1890 on the then state of the Law regarding Testamentary Dispositions of Property; and this, though written for other than sanitary purposes, may, I think, perhaps be of interest in connection with the subject-matter of Chapter XVI. A misfortune, which in the summer of 1896 seriously lessened my powers of eyesight, might well have frustrated my desire of issuing the present edition; but the great kindness of my friend Mr. George Ashburner has helped me over the difficulty of press-correction; and I can hardly say how grateful I feel to him for the power he has thus given me to complete my undertaking. 19th October, 1897. J. S. 156180 |