Excerpt from Diseases of the Ovaries, Vol. 1 of 2: Their Diagnosis and Treatment Had the operation been more generally known or ac cepted, its prmciples better understood, its details more accurately observed, or its results less Open to doubt, I should have felt that the narration of so. Long a series of cases would have been unnecessary and undesirable. But as it is - with many important practical points still undecided - still feeling myself a constant necessity for referring to the records of my own bygone experience for my own guidance - I think that what I find useful may be also useful to those of my professional brethren whose experience is less than my own. This consideration may, perhaps, explain the plan or arrangement of the work of which this is the first volume. 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.