Excerpt from Transactions of the New York Academy of Medicine, Vol. 11: For 1894 But little more than three decades have passed since were spoken the words of that particular lecturer whom we all respected, and I may say loved, for his pure teach ing, when by a vote of the faculty he was instructed to deliver a course of lectures upon the subject of ovariotomy he said very quaintly in his opening sentence, Gentle men, I Shall expect to speak to-day with more than my usual volubility and eloquence, as I shall not be hampered with any knowledge of my subject. This really reflected at that time the true condition of abdominal surgery in this city. Gastrotomy, gastrostomy, abdominal section, laparotomy, coeliotomy, being terms little used in those days, some even unknown by good specialists, and by many of those who constituted the great family of general practitioners understood not at all. 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.