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Excerpt from The Doctor's Window: Poems by the Doctor, for the Doctor, and About the Doctor Personal service: there is coming now the infinitely broader relation of sympathy and confidence between the entire com munity and the whole medical profession, engaged in a common work Of discovering and removing the causes Of Disease. Hygiene and preventive medicine are the fields wherein the greatest triumphs of the future, as Of the past, are to be achieved. But there will always remain the close and individual relation of Doctor and patient which is so well depicted in all its phases in the verses Of this collection. We turn from the larger outlook Of the struggle which science wages against disease, to the more narrow sphere wherein every home Of the land the Doctor wages his never ending battle with the individual cases Of weak. 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.