Excerpt from Talks to My Patients: Hints on Getting Well and Keeping Well The book is not intended to do away with doctors, but to aid the young wife when there is no experienced mother or intelligent nurse at hand; to advise in emergencies, or to guide in those matters of delicacy with which woman's life is so replete. The best physicians often feel the lack of some one able to note symptoms, vary treatment, and guide when they are not with the patient. In short, good nursing is the better part of doctoring; indeed, often supersedes the need of a physician. So this is not a medical book, not a learned book, not a show of science, and I trust not unscientific. It will savor little of the library, more of every-day life. A simple com pend of such motherly hints as seem to be needed, and such as, from my long care of the sick, I have found available. 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.