Excerpt from The American Practitioner and News, Vol. 44: A Monthly Journal of Medicine and Surgery; January to December, 1910 My first apparatus 1 one made by Betz, being heated by gas at one en the heat being conveyed by a sheet iron pipe to the interior; direct contact with the patient being avoided by a shield running the entire length of the oven. The part affected res-ts on a ham mock of course material. A vent - hole in the top controls, to a large extent, the heated air contained therein, which is also regulated by a thermometer. 'the use of gas is not entirely free from danger, especially when a high de gree of heat is desired, and I have had the toweling to scorch when using this apparatus and, at one time, to smoulder. However, odor and smoke from the vent gives warning enough concerning this danger. 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.