Excerpt from The New York Medical Journal, 1875, Vol. 21The enumeration I have now given nearly completes the list of regions to which the bloodless method is applicable. It cannot be employed in operations on the trunk, or on the face and neck, where surgeons would gladly, if possible, avail themselves of its advantages.These advantages, as claimed by Esmarch, are as follow First, the prevention of a great loss of blood during the larger Operations. It is assumed that this economy of the vital ¿uid will sometimes be the direct means of saving life that it will render more certain and speedy the healing process, and di minish the frequency of septicaemia and pyaemia. The other principal 'advantage of the method is the facility with which it enables the surgeon to accomplish deep and difficult dis sections, the tissues not being obscured by blood. It is said also to permit the easy extraction of foreign bodies, and the thorough examination of diseased bones and joints, with the view of deciding upon the extent of Operation necessary in any given case.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.