Excerpt from Philadelphia Medical Times, Vol. 7: A Bi-Weekly Journal of Medical and Surgical Science; March 17, 1877 Professor Dowell, in a work of about two hundred pages, has given a brief description of the many forms of hernia, together with the various plans of treatment, palliative and curative, that have been devised for its relief by different Operators. In addition to the subject of hernia, about one-third of the book is devoted to an account of several new surgical instruments that have been invented by the author. The portion of the monograph on hernia that is of the greatest interest is that which contains a short explanation of the author's method for the radical cure of hernia. 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.