Excerpt from The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 94: January-June, 1876November 24, 1868. Operation. The patient was etherized, and the inside of the whole upper lip strangulated by seven large needles carry ing fourteen ligatures.January 10, 1869. Wound of upper lip entirely healed and tissues contracted.February 23d. Operation. The patient having been etherized, a few drops of a saturated solution of nitrate of silver were injected by a sub cutaneous syringe at eight several places in the thickness of the lower lip, the latter having been compressed upon the point of the syringe during the injection.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.