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Excerpt from An Index and Alphabetical List of Contributors to the Transactions of the Indiana State Medical Society: From Its Beginning in 1849 to 1907 The men who contributed the earlier articles to these Transactions have fallen asleep, and we will read no new articles from them. They were not ignorant, but observant and thinking men. They recorded facts that daily fell under their observation; and facts are always valuable. Occasionally some of these writers would theorize and draw wrong conclusions, but when they detailed facts and history, their contributions stand as valuable work. Science comes along and pushes theories out of the way, but science never destroyed a fact, nor disturbed correct history. A few things in these Transactions are not worth a reading at the present day, except as a curiosity, but all that has been written concerning biography, history, epidemics, and clinical cases, is well worth a reading in the twentieth century. I will venture a suggestion, namely, that a selec tion of articles from the Transactions, relating to the biography of early Indiana physicians, history of our primitive epidemics, details of pioneer medical practice, clinical cases, etc., might well be selected for publication in a volume as a contribution of medical literature for our State Centennial in 1916. It seems eminently proper that the names of authors, as well as the titles of their papers should be preserved. In accordance with this idea I have prepared, with care, and much labor, an alphabetical list of every name. 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.