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                                  THE
                    AMERICAN PRACTITIONER AND NEWS.
                          “_NEC TENUI PENNÂ._”
     VOL. XXV.       LOUISVILLE, KY., FEBRUARY 1, 1898.       NO. 3


  Certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he
  must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his
  reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or
  his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a
  downright fact may be told in a plain way; and we want downright
  facts at present more than any thing else.—RUSKIN.




                           Original Articles.


                 SOMETHING ON THE DISUSE OF PHLEBOTOMY.

                      BY RUFUS W. GRISWOLD, M. D.

When I began looking into medical books prepa