Excerpt from The Brooklyn Medical Journal, Vol. 1: January-June, 1888 While the antiseptic idea has revolutionized and extended surgery, it has vastly increased the importance of hospitals, for a considerable pro portion Of its achievements are with very great difficulty attainable under any other conditions than those found in a perfectly equipped and wisely ordered hospital. In addition to this the ability to fully carry out anti septic principles ih private work requires much preliminary training and experience, and this is only to be Obtained satisfactorily either by actual work in hospitals, or by frequent and close study of the work as done by hospital surgeons. 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.