Excerpt from The Medical Times and Gazette, Vol. 1 Facta non verba might have been Liston's motto. He never was a fluent lecturer. His sentences were short, broken up, abrupt, colloquial; but they were remembered - a higher virtue than belongs to the efforts of many a voluble orator. That he did many wonderful Surgical feats is as mere a truism as that Napoleon fought many wonderful battles. But we recollect one which is of some historical interest. One day it was noised abroad that Liston was going to remove a ball from the head of the thigh bone of an old foreigner which had been imbedded for a great number of years, and had resisted the Operating skill of Dupuytren and other Conti neutal Surgeons. The theatre was accordingly crowded, and after a time a greyheaded. Thin old man, in a red nightcap. 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.