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which these articles are devoted, as well as to the 

 young practitioners for whom they were written. 

 I do not suppose for a moment that they are 

 less required by the upholders of one view than 

 by adherents of any other. In republishing that 

 address I desire especially to direct attention to 

 the unsatisfactory state of the law with regard to 

 everything affecting our knowledge of the causes 

 of death. 



