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Excerpt from Essays in Surgical Anatomy and Surgery In the winter Of 1876, in some statements made before the New York County Medical Society, upon the subject Of one Of these Essays upon which I was then engaged, I earnestly censured the practice Of tying the common carotid for any lesion Of the external carotid or its branches, when there was one-half an inch between the lesion and the bifurcation of the primitive trunk. My conclu sions met with the approval of two eminent surgeons, themselves Professors Of Surgical Anatomy in the College Of Physicians and Surgeons and the Bellevue Hospital College, and within the last year several younger American surgeons have with creditable skill ligatured the branches of the external carotid, rather than tie the common trunk.l These few instances, with those gathered in these pages, will, I hope, inaugurate a new era in the operative surgery Of the neck, and will furthermore encourage younger men not to accept any procedure, no matter how high the authority which eu dorses it, unless it stands the test of a critical analysis. In gleaning from the almost boundless field Of professional litera ture the Surgical Histories of the Great Vessels of the Neck, it has been my aim to arrive at the truth, positive and indisputable. I have accepted nothing that was not satisfactorily stated, not wish ing to swell the manuscript with irrelevant matter. TO this end I have omitted several hundred cases of deligation Of these vessels, heretofore published those of the subclavian2 artery when from the description Of the Operation I was satisfied that the axillary was the vessel tied; those of the other vessels when the results were not given, or the operation couched in uncertain terms. 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.