Excerpt from Recent Progress in Surgery: The Annual Address Delivered Before the Massachusetts Medical Society, May 25, 1864Yet another paper, 1' addressed to us in the form Of a paternal letter from our Nestor, whose presence we always welcome, and to whom we delight to point as a living ideal Of the good and wise physician, shows us that the very drugs which are Often per verted to the greatest harm are also among our most potent agents for good: like Sharp tools, they are only dangerous in the hands of those who have not learned how to use them.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.