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Excerpt from Veterinary Surgery, Vol. 3: Veterinary Surgical Operations In writing this book the author has endeavored to explain in a plain manner all a student or practitioner desires to know about the Veterinary surgical operations which have been tried and found useful. Untried procedures, passing surgical novelties and classical operations more picturesque then adaptable to our purpose, have been intentionally omitted. Attempt has been made to describe every phase of these useful operations in the minutest possible manner, sometimes at the risk of inviting criticism for apparently unnecessary repetitions. The fact that knowledge of minor details of surgical technique is indis pensable to the successful practice of surgery was kept promi uently in mind thoughout. The methods of performance are those used in our daily work the conclusions as to the useful ness of the operations are the resume of our own observations; and the accidents and u'ntoward results are records of actual events. If it had not been thought more confusing than instructive, and if space had permitted, the opinions and modern methods of others would have been described. The reader is invoked not to interpret this apparent display of conceit as entirely a matter of choice, since the capacity of the volume is already overtaxed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.