Excerpt from A System of Surgery Theoretical and Practical, in Treatises by Various Authors, Vol. 1 of 5: General Pathology III. The various local injuries are next described; and in this part the anatomical order has been followed, the body having been divided into eight regions - the Head, Face, Neck, Thorax, Back, Pelvis, Upper and Lower Extremity. By this plan it was thought that the injuries which affect the same parts, and which in prae tice have to be diagnosed from each other, would be brought into the same part of the book and' under the treatment of the same author. IV. The principles of operative and minor Surgery, and of the employment of anaesthetics, follow the essays on local injuries. 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.

Excerpt from A System of Surgery, Theoretical and Practical, in Treatises by Various Authors, Vol. 1 of 4: General Pathology HE object of this book is to unite into a complete sys tem the opinions and experience of many men, most of them Hospital Surgeons in London, and most of them writing on subjects of their own choice. As each subject must be treated with something of the completeness of a monograph, the work must necessarily be voluminous; but both Contributors and Editor have done their best to present each essay in as moderate a compass as the topic would allow. Where so many men unite in writing on parts of one great subject, it is hardly possible to avoid some differences of Opinion; but none of much import ance will, it is hoped, be detected in the following pages, and certainly none which can destroy the uniformity of the teaching. 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.