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Excerpt from Injuries of the Spine and Spinal Cord: Without Apparent Mechanical Lesion, and Nervous Shock, in Their Surgical and Medico-Legal Aspects The favourable reception accorded to the first edition of this book both in our own country and abroad has called for a second edition so much sooner that I had ventured to hope, that although in preparing this edition I have subjected the work to thorough revision, I have been unable to make such additions to it as I had wished and contemplated. I have, however, availed myself of some valuable suggestions in the writings of those who, more especially in America, have been led by a perusal of the first edition to contribute to periodical literature their own experience upon the subjects dealt with in this book, and whose views I am glad to find very largely coincide with those which I have submitted to the profession. In its main feature the work remains unchanged, and my hope is that it may still be found to contain a trustworthy record of the various injuries and diseases which are caused most commonly, but by no means exclusively, by railway collision. 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.

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