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Excerpt from Annals of Surgery, Vol. 51: A Monthly Review of Surgical Science and Practice; January-June, 1910 TO be specific, in the following paper I propose - some what haltingly, I fear - to consider the subject of the Blood in Surgery from our third point Of view - the point of View Of the student Of literature. In these days most Of us who investigate this matter are busied, some with laboratory studies on the effects of hemorrhage and on the results of transfusion, and some in applying directly to patients the meas ures proved useful by laboratory experimentation. Shall not we here properly and timely, therefore, review the develop ment Of studies in the blood as we see them to - day? The problem of the blood in surgery presents certain features, which I shall recall to you; and I shall discuss these features from the historical standpoint as well as from the critical standpoint Of the present. We shall consider the Cir culation, hemorrhage, and transfusion, While various cognate matters incidentally must be developed. Let us turn first to a discussion of knowledge Of the Circulation, as it became clear gradually to physiologists. NO subject in the history Of medicine is more vital or illuminating. In a former writing, On Aneurism, I said some little On this matter, but in that writing I was concerned with a field more narrow than that we are now considering. TO the ancients the problem of the circulation was truly a problem, though time and again some prophet arose who thought he had solved it. It is interesting to recall the fact that the great Hippocrates early in the Third Century B. C. 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.