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Excerpt from Surgical Methods Among Savage Races This paper, which I present for your consideration, does not exhaust the subject - the history of surgery among savages. I have collected a few Of the more important operations and cus toms as practised by primitive people. In the earlier ages, the doctor and surgeon were one and the same person, but as time rolled on, the physician and surgeon be came distinct personages. The Old custom of the chirurgeon and physician being one and the same party is found in the country medical man of our century. Time, in this latter respect, has made no change. I claim nothing original in my paper. I present the labors of others; their scientific gems of research and thought. 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.