Transcriber’s Note
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed. When in doubt, Transcriber kept the hyphens in end-of-line hyphenated words.
Many simple typographical errors were silently corrected.
Text frequently uses “régime” and “regime”; both forms retained here.
Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations. In versions of this eBook that support hyperlinks, the page references in the List of Illustrations lead to the corresponding illustrations.
The original book included a large foldout map affixed to the inside back cover. The digitized source of this eBook divided that map into four quadrants of unequal sizes. In the HTML versions of this eBook, the map is displayable in several ways, including smaller and larger versions of the entire map and smaller and larger versions of its four quadrants. The Transcriber was unable to recombine the quadrants into a seamless single map. Some text in the smaller versions is not readable. The larger versions of the map may not be included in some mobile (epub and mobi) versions of this eBook, but they are available at Project Gutenberg.
The index was not systematically checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.
Page 3: Redundant book title removed.
Page 453: “Hospitals, American” includes a reference to page 149. In the original book, that page number was printed below the entry for “Howard, John”. Page 149 mentions an American hospital but does not mention John Howard.