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Excerpt from A Treatise on Gun-Shot Wounds, on Inflammation, Erysipelas, and Mortification, on Injuries of Nerves, and on Wounds of the Extremities Requiring the Different Operations of Amputation: In Which the Various Methods of Performing These Operations Are Shown, Together With Their After Treatment, and Containing an Account of the Author's Successful Case of Amputation at the Hip-Joint, &C When I printed the first 'edition of this work in 1815, I stated, that it contained many opinions. 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.