Excerpt from Annals of Surgery, Vol. 1: A Monthly Review of Surgical Science and Practice; July-December, 1909 I Shall endeavor to briefly settle for you these questions by the results of a study of all the recorded cases accessible to me in medical literature, and all unpublished cases with which the Fellows, and others have kindly supplied me by correspondence. A complete table of all unquestioned cases is appended, to enable the Fellows to review my conclusions if they so desire, and I must beg that they will judge Of their correctness by glancing at the Tables (pages 8 to I 7) as I read, these really constituting the body of my address. I do not deny the possibility - indeed, the probability - that I have not secured reports of all total excisions of'the scapula for malignant disease, and possibly more favorable results might thus be revealed if additional cases were unearthed, but after the exhaustive efforts I have made, I am convinced that no material change would be made in my conclusions. A few words are requisite to explain the methods em ployed in the compilation of these tables, which differ widely from all their predecessors. Nothing so strongly impresses the conscientious student as the extraordinary inaccuracy of the tables purporting to be those of complete extirpations of the scapula. Many cases were really partial removals, or, sometimes, indeed complete removals, but done in two stages. 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.