Excerpt from The Practical Medicine Series, Vol. 2 of 8: Comprising Eight Volumes on the Year's Progress in Medicine and Surgery; Series 1921 During the past year surgical literature has again taken up a more normal course, so that we are able to bring before our readers a great wealth and variety of material. We have tried again to make our abstracts and dis eussions sufficiently full to give a clear idea of what the authors of the various articles desired to bring to the attention of the profession. 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.