Excerpt from The Principles and Practice of Surgery, Embracing Minor and Operative Surgery, Vol. 1: With a Bibliographical Index of American Surgical Writers From the Year 1783-1860; Arranged for the Use of Students, and Illustrated by 400 Wood-Cuts, and Nearly 1000 Engravings on Steel Tmc fifth edition of a treatise on minor surgery, the second edition of that on operative surgery, and the first edition of Tax practice or surgery, by the author, embracing over ten thousand copies, having been exhausted in 1860, and the de mand continuing, arrangements were made by the publishers to issue new editions, and to combine the three treatises in one. 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.