Excerpt from The Retrospect of Medicine, Vol. 45: Being a Half-Yearly Journal, Containing a Retrospective View of Every Discovery and Practical Improvement in the Medical Sciences, January June, 1862Cleet palate. - The most favourable cases for operation are those in which the cleft Is complete or nearly so, for when it is only partial, after the separation Of the soft tissues from the bone, the ¿aps do not fall inwards, owing to want of paral lelism between the sides. The use of lateral incisions inter feres with the nutrition of the ¿aps, but sometimes they are absolutely necessary. As for the importance of detaching the periosteum with the ¿ap so insisted on by Prof. Langenbeck.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.