Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.

Misspellings in quoted evidence not changed; misspellings that could be due to mispronunciations were not changed.

Some simple typographical errors were corrected.

Inconsistent hyphenation of compound words retained.

Ambiguous end-of-line hyphens retained.

Occasional uses of "Mr." for "Mrs." and of "Mrs." for "Mr." corrected.

Dubious repeated words, (e.g., "What took place by way of of conversation?") retained.

Several unbalanced quotation marks not remedied.

Occasional periods that should be question marks not changed.

Occasional periods that should be commas, and commas that should be periods, were changed only when they clearly had been misprinted (at the end of a paragraph or following a speaker's name in small-caps at the beginning of a line). Some commas and semi-colons were printed so faintly that they appear to be periods or colons: some were found and corrected, but some almost certainly remain.

Text in quotations is not indented unless it was indented in the source.

Page 4: "lactated renger solution" should be "lactated Ringer's solution".

Page 6: "larynzo scope" should be "laryngoscope".

Page 248: "1:30 a.m." probably is a misprint.

Page 254: "Van Alstyne" is also printed as "Van Alystyne"; the first one is correct.

Page 286: "an attempt to get and was" may have omitted a word after "get".

Page 321: "assume sometime 12:40 and 12:43" may have omitted a word after "sometime".

Page 321: "suppose to" may be a misprint for "supposed to".

Page 322: "out of this man" probably should be "out on this man".

Page 323: "window of Texas School Book" probably missing "the" after "of".

Page 334: "sometimes around" probably should be "sometime".