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Excerpt from Practical Observations in Surgery: Illustrated With Cases Soon after I had entered upon the Medical Profession, I began the custom of committing to paper such cafes, which occurred in my practice, as seemed rare, or peculiarly instructive; hoping that the perusal of them might assist me in the discrimination and cure of diseases. The following Practical Observations are chiefly drawn from these records. I have selected such as appeared to me the most useful, and such as, I hope, are not altogether unworthy the public notice. The reader will not find in the following pages many excursions of fancy, or much theoretical reasoning: he must be content with plain facts, recited in a plain manner. The papers have been drawn up amidst frequent interruptions, and sometimes at considerable intervals. 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.