PREFACE.
At the request of friends I have willingly consented to the republication of my writings of past years in a uniform edition.
Truth never grows old, though re-adaptation to different phases of life may be necessary. I shall rejoice if anything I have written in the past may prove helpful to the younger generation of workers, with whom I am in hearty sympathy.
ELIZABETH BLACKWELL, M.D.Hastings,May, 1902.