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Excerpt from A System of Surgery Theoretical and Practical, in Treatises by Various Authors, Vol. 1 of 5: General Pathology III. The various local injuries are next described; and in this part the anatomical order has been followed, the body having been divided into eight regions - the Head, Face, Neck, Thorax, Back, Pelvis, Upper and Lower Extremity. By this plan it was thought that the injuries which affect the same parts, and which in prae tice have to be diagnosed from each other, would be brought into the same part of the book and' under the treatment of the same author. IV. The principles of operative and minor Surgery, and of the employment of anaesthetics, follow the essays on local injuries. 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.