Excerpt from The Influence of Anesthesia on the Surgery of the Nineteenth CenturyA prophetic utterance of Pott in one of his books is interesting: Many and great are the improve ments which the chirurgic art has received within the last fifty years, and much thanks are due to those who have contributed them, but when we refleét how much remains to be done, it Should excite our industry rather than our vanity. Our fathers thought themselves a great deal nearer to perfecftion than we have found them to be, and I am much mistaken if our successors do not in more instances than one wonder both at our inattention and ignorance.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.