Excerpt from Modern Operative Bone Surgery: With Special Reference to the Treatment of FracturesThe great demand for a comprehensive, yet abridged, book on Plastic Bone Surgery suitable for the busy surgeon, presenting clearly the mod ern methods and mechanical means for perfecting such work, has been firmly impressed upon the mind of the author in the last three years by the great number of inquiries from this and foreign countries for a book dealing with this subject. It was with a keen appreciation of this demand that the present volume was undertaken.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.