Excerpt from Principles of Surgery A modern work on the principles of surgery in the English lan guage has become a generally and well-recognized necessity. The recent great discoveries relating to the etiology and pathology of surgical dis eases have made the text-books of only a few years ago old and almost worthless. The many treatises on surgery, by American and English authors, which have made their appearance in rapid succession during the last ten years or more, are replete with valuable practical informa tion, but most of them are defective in those parts relating to the matter treating of the fundamental principles of the art and science of surgery. 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.