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Excerpt from Practical Surgery: With One Hundred and Fifty Engravings on Wood The following work on "Practical Surgery" was written, somewhat hurriedly, a few years ago. The original title, though since borrowed by more than one author, has been retained. The book was, contrary to expectation, most favourably received by the Junior members of the profession, for whose use it was intended, - much more so, perhaps, than it at first deserved to be. Various editions have been since called for, it has been gradually added to, and, it is to be hoped, improved. The volume might be readily increased in bulk, possibly not much in value, by theoretical disquisitions, by quotations from authors, ancient and modern, and by a detailed account of cases. The young surgeon ought, without doubt, to understand well the history of his profession, and this is only to be acquired by a perusal of the leading surgical works from the time of Ambrose Paré downwards, to Wiseman and Heister. He ought to make the admirable works of the great surgeons of the last century and the beginning of the present one, both domestic and foreign, (now it is feared too much neglected,) those of Pott, of Hunter, of John Bell, of Abernethy, and Astley Cooper, of Callisen, Richter, Desault, Scarpa, Pelletan, Dupuytren, &c., his most anxious study. The reader of this work would be not much wiser, however, or more capable of undertaking the management of difficult cases, were the author to enter into a long detail of what this, or the other of the moderns have recommended, or what he has found by experience in practice to be useless or hurtful. 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.