For technical reasons beyond the control of the transcriber, long chapters in this EPUB version have had to be partitioned into smaller segments of text and illustrations. The reader will see the break between each segment represented as a ‘thought break’. They appear at places in the chapter where the author has started a new subject for discussion. These are easily recognised because the author features the subject title in italic font as the first sentence of a new paragraph. The following extract is an example:
The Surgical Treatment of Gonorrhœa.—The principal symptoms ....
When a thought break occurs before such a paragraph, it is displayed to the reader as a short, centered, rule thus:
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The original chapter text around a thought break is not altered in any way.