Face and Foot Deformities

subject in the following involved, not to say ungrammatical, sentence: " I may add that, as Surgeon to the Evelina Hospital for Children, these deformities of the body have occupied much of my thought and attention, with an earnest desire to erase from the chapter of accidents as many as possible of such unsightly disfigurements; so that in the inevitable struggle for supremacy, in after life, these poor children may stand a better chance of competing for the prizes, and not be so heavily handicapped in the race by their more fortunate competitors." Over the page we are told that " there are an endless variety of congenital deficiencies.'' Finding this sort of writing in the short preface, we naturally look for much more of it in the body of the book; and we are