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Excerpt from Clinical Notes on the Electric Cautery in Uterine Surgery In compliance with the wishes of many prominent members in the profession, and influenced in some degree by the flattering reception accorded my paper on galvano-cautery, I have been induced to revise the same for publication in the shape now presented. During the past nine months I have had ample opportunity of still farther pursuing my experimental investigations, with the hope of being able to improve and simplify, if not to perfect, such a galvanic apparatus as might be relied upon for surgical purposes. The net practical results of these researches and some other matters of importance are briefly set forth in an appendix. It is true, a review of my more recent experience, and a detailed account of many grave and highly interesting operations since met with, might also have been added, but the pressing demands of daily practice on my time have rendered this impracticable. In this connection, however, it is well to state that a more extended acquaintance with the subject has but served to confirm my first views and opinions regarding the merits and claims of bloodless surgery. Besides, in no very important particular do I see any good reason to depart from the observance of certain principles originally insisted upon touching the general management of batteries, or suggestions as to the proper method of conducting cautery operations. Consequently, though a minute history of the cases referred to, might, in one sense, render this little contribution to gynæcology more complete, it would probably serve little or no practical purpose. It is hardly necessary, then, to remind the reader that what is here offered is a part only, and therefore an incomplete report of ray clinical labors in this department of uterine surgery Should I have succeeded in conveying that kind and amount of information merely, touching electro-cautery, which might enable any intelligent surgeon to employ this safe, and in many cases, the only means at our command for curing or alleviating the ails of suffering women, my sole object will have been accomplished. 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.