Excerpt from A Treatise of the Diseases of the Bones: Containing an Exact and Compleat Account of the Nature, Signs, Causes and Cures Thereof, in All Their Various Kinds Surgery; and the Authors I had read, had not written any Thing better. The Foreigners, and the Stu; dents of our Nation, who wete prefent at my private. Were fo we fatisfied With t that they defired I would give them my Dictates 5 but as I had not tranfcrib'd any Thing upon that Head, I propofed their writing down, themfeives, what they re membered of my; ding to make. What Additions were neceftary therein. They did (0; I kept my Word; and from fthe Lettures I then read, 'a rough Draught was form ed, whereon I have, worked with tolerable, Succefs. 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.