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Excerpt from Medical and Surgical Cases and Observations: With Plates They are published from a variety of motives, which it may not be amiss briefly to state. In the first place, I thought some of them were worthy of record from their singularity, and others from the importance of their subjects. In the second place, I thought there were many of them which were of a character very much to encon rage the young physician, in his attempts to relieve cases apparently desperate in their circumstances. Some of them exemplify the power of nature in effecting cures almost beyond hope, and others, the reward obtained by perseverance, which, however, is not the less for being often unexpected. In the third place, I recollected that most of them occurred in places remote from my present residence. 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.