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Excerpt from The Principles of Surgery The following pages, intended to exhibit a condensed View of the Principles of the Healing Art, contain the substance of the Author's systematic Lectures on this subject: In their preparation, it has been his aim to combine, with soundness of doctrine, such simplicity of arrangement and plainness of illustration as seem best calculated to facilitate, While they direct, the labours of the student. To his own Pupils, the Volume is offered as one of reference as well as a text-book; and he ventures to hope that, to others also, it may prove of service, as a 'concise exposition of the Science of Modern Surgery. 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.