Excerpt from A System of Gynaecology: With Three Hundred and Ninety-Three Illustrations; A Translation From the French Now antisepsis has triumphantly overcome all opposition all our instructors teach it, and the younger generation practice it with in Spired fervor. We are as well armed for the strife as our neighbors. Let us profit by their experience, and avoid the operative excesses into which some have too often fallen. In view of these tendencies, which, it is to be feared, have some times caused the sacrifice of a careful clinical study of the disease, and a close and exact determination of the diagnosis and prognosis to the exaltation of immediate results, it seems to me that a definite role falls naturally to the lot of French gynecology. Let it accept with out qualification the bold and useful inventions of foreign origin, but let it exercise a more solicitous surveillance over what is in reality the highest part of our art, an exact interpretation of indications. There will then be no missing link in the chain of [its records, and its future will be worthy of its glorious past. My endeavor has been, as far as possible, to present an exact state ment Of the present condition of science in all countries, without giv ing a cumbersome mass of detail. For that reason I have abstained from dwelling at any length upon historical data preceding the anti septic period, although I have not neglected any occasion to assert any just claims of priority on the part of operators, without regard to nationality. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.