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Excerpt from Detroit Medical Journal, 1901 When seen the patient was still con scious, but very weak with a pale and anxious countenance, rapid pulse, and pre sented all the signs of active internal haemorrhage. Although the conditions were exceedingly unfavorable, it was de cided that the only chance for life lay in laparotomy and the immediate control of the haemorrhage. Operation was there fore undertaken after the shortest possi ble delay. 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.