Xvi INTRODUCTION. 
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. 
