Excerpt from The Extraordinary Case of Sarah Hawkes: One of Extreme Deformity, Cured by a Method Founded Upon Simple Principles At no period in the history of the world have the Arts and Sciences advanced so rapidly, or led to such unlooked-for and astonishing conclusions, as we have seen in our own day. While one set of men is engaged in contributing to the conveniences and elegancies of life, another is equally zealous to promote the health and comfort of society. Released from the trammels of the schools, and from the domineering authority of great names, philosophers have begun to think and to act with an independence hitherto unknown. To this cause may be imputed the numerous changes and improvements which have recently, and in a most conspicuous manner, characterised sundry departments of Medicine. Some of these, cultivated from very early ages, have, of late, assumed an aspect altogether surprising; and in others the ardour of inquiry has been revived after having lain dormant for many centuries. in no matter of detail has this been more happily exemplified than in the knowledge and treatment of certain affections of the Spine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.

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