Excerpt from Edinburgh Medical Journal, Vol. 21 Since being called upon to perform the duties of temporary assistant surgeon to the Royal Infirmary, I have had exceptional opportunities, owing to the depletion of the staff, of operating on cases of this disease. I find that during the three years and nine months since the beginning of the war I have Operated on 221 cases. These cases have the merit, from the point Of view of a consideration of methods of treatment, of having been operated on within a comparatively limited space of time by the same operator and by the same methods. Almost all of these cases were operated on on the day of admission, and on going over the records I have endeavoured to exclude all cases in which a definite pathological lesion of the appendix was not demonstrated at operation. Most of the cases have been operated on in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and in Leith Hospital, and I am glad to have this opportunity of thanking my chiefs there for allowing me to treat the cases. 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.