Excerpt from The Treatment of Wounds: Its Principles and Practice, General and Special It is not necessary that one should blindly follow the theories or the methods of any one man nor, indeed, is it just to select any one name as the special representative of the present state of the science or the art of wound-treatment. The advances in our knowledge of the therapeutics of wounds, which it would be criminal on the part of a surgeon oi today to ignore, are the results of the labors of many. 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.