Excerpt from General Surgery There is no claim of completeness for the bibliography at the end of each chapter. My principal Object was to divide the literature on human medicine from that Of veterinary sci ence and, above all, also to indicate to students the funda mental investigations that have been made in human medi cine; only the most important and recent works have been mentioned. 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.