Excerpt from Annals of Surgery, Vol. 59: A Monthly Review of Surgical Science and Practice; April-June, 1914 Bone transplantation has become a well recognized and suc cessinl surgical procedure. Perhaps no other one thing in surgery has created a greater discussion than the function of the periosteum in bone transplants and what it accomplishes. To understand the subject it will be necessary to give the three views of leading authorities as to the life of grafts. 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.