Excerpt from Principles and Practice of Surgery, Vol. 3: Being a Treatise on Surgical Diseases and InjuriesWith the completion of this volume, the third, of a System of Surgery, terminates a task which has occupied, for more than five years, whatever moments of leisure have been at my command. The very favorable recep tion of the first two parts of the work by the profession, as well as by the medical press, both in this country and abroad, has contributed in no small degree to lighten the labor bestowed on the present volume.In its preparation I have to acknowledge my continued indebtedness to Dr. J. William White, for his careful revision of the proof-sheets while the work was passing through the press.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.