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Excerpt from The Ideals and Organisation of a Medical Society It seems strange that so many centuries elapsed before the value of medical co-operation found expression in the establishment of Medical Societies. But the history of Medicine shows that professional education, as now understood, is but of recent growth, and apart from medical education professional organisation could scarcely exist. 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.