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HE physician who is unfamiliar with court procedure, and who is more or less unversed in the ordinary rules governing the examination of witnesses and the taking of testimony, may, at any time, find himself upon the witness stand and at the mercy of a hostile attorney. The object of this brochure is to place at the immediate disposal of the physician a brief but comprehensive guide, from which he may quickly obtain such information as may be necessary to enable him to understand both his own and his patient's rights and privileges, whenever he may be called as witness in a court of justice. It is believed that this complete but succinct epitome, together with the preceding monograph, "," will be welcomed and appreciated by the physicians of America, whose multifarious professional duties leave but scant time in which they may familiarize themselves with collateral subjects. That each and every copy may prove of real and practical value to its recipient is the earnest desire of

THE ARLINGTON CHEMICAL CO., 2em