Excerpt from The Buffalo Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 20: September, 1880 Nearly every one adopts for himself some particular method and is inclined to hold tenaciously to it. It has occurred to me, however, during the past two years to treat at least eight cases in which the symptoms were so aggravated as to warrant the most radical measures in the event of the stricture not yielding to treatment, and the almost uniformly good results seemed to warrant attention being called to one or two details. 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.