Excerpt from Observations in Clinical Surgery Through time, are apt to be relinquished and replaced by the silly suggestions of presumptuous folly. Having for a long period of years been engaged in teaching Surgery, with the advantage of a great hospital for my field of instruction, I venture to hope that the expression of opinions which I have thus been led to enter tain, together with the relation of cases shewing their application in practice, may not prove unac ceptable to the members of my profession. The observations now offered refer with few excep tions to cases that have occurred within the last nine months and it is my intention, at no distant date, to publish some further illustrations of the. 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.