Excerpt from The Principles and Practice of Surgery, Vol. 1: Being a Treatise on Surgical Diseases and InjuriesThe present volume is the first part of a work on the Principles and Practice of Surgery.For a quarter of a century I have been unceasingly occupied with the study of anatomy and surgery, and during most of that time have been actively engaged, as a public instructor, in communicating the great teach ings of these closely-allied branches, in the hospitals of Philadelphia and in the halls of the University of Pennsylvania, to thousands of young men from all parts of the United States and to many from foreign countries.Most of the pages have been written, not in what may be termed moments of leisure, but during the hours of the night, - hours stolen from the time usually allotted to the repose of body and mind, and after the daily labors of an exacting public and private practice.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.