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Excerpt from A Manual of Operative Surgery, Vol. 1 of 2 AT the request of Sir Frederick Treves, I undertook the responsibility Of a complete revision of this Manual, of which the Second Edition has for some time been out of print. For the delay in the appearance of the Third Edition I must ask indulgence, in view Of the great amount Of work involved, and the extensive changes and additions that have had to be made. The ever-growing importance of Abdominal Surgery rendered it advisable that the Operations on the abdomen should be grouped together in the first volume. Some sections have been curtailed or omitted, such as that relating to Lateral Lithotomy, but most of them have been added to, and several are wholly new. A considerable number of fresh illustrations have been inserted, and a series of coloured plates has been introduced to make clearer the anatomy of certain important Operations. These coloured plates have all been drawn Specially for this Edition from dissections in the Museums of the Royal College of Surgeons and the London Hospital Medical College. I beg to thank the Councils of those institutions for their kindness and courtesy in this matter. So far as present surgical experience goes I have selected for description the best methods of performing the various Operations, but I have endeavoured to avoid encumbering the work with foot-notes and details as to the exact forms of incision, etc., employed by many individual surgeons. Both surgery and medicine, I venture to think, have been greatly hampered in the past by the needless introduction of names. 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.