Excerpt from A Clinical Report of Operative Surgery in the Service of Dr. William T. Bull: At the New York Hospital During October and November, 1889, and From February to June, 1890 The large number of abdominal cases possessing points of unusual interest and importance that occurred during this period gave rise to the idea of publishing a short his tory of the cases which should contain all the salient feat ures. An effort has been made to avoid verbosity on the one hand without sinking to the level of mere statistics on the other. The original intention of including only abdominal cases was subsequently abandoned. And when the interest seemed sufficient to warrant, other cases have been given in more or less detail, the ordinary cases being summarized or tabu lated in order to make the report as complete as possible. 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.