Excerpt from Excision of Cancer of the Rectum: An Analysis of One Hundred and Forty Cases The questions for which a solution has been sought are chiefly these. What are the dangers, and what is the mor tality of the operation? To what class of cases is it applicable? What are its results as a curative and as a palliative measure? Instead of copying cases in full or preparing a table (troublesome both to writer and publisher, and very likely to be tiresome to the reader), I shall give at the close a list of the operators, with reference to the place of record. I have been at no exhaustive search to compile a complete list of operations, but have gathered together those best known and most easily attainable. 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.