Excerpt from Clinical Talks on Minor Surgery To-day a majority of the surgeons in active practice have grown up with the antiseptic idea. In the course of their development, the antiseptic conscience has become part of their being. That intangible thing which we call surgical instinct includes and partakes Of that same conscience. There is no danger-of any man who has received his training in the past twenty years going far astray, with that con science to prompt him. Every source of surgi cal infection has been so thoroughly and univer sally studied that, with one Or two exceptions which I must speak Of later, our technique is now perfect, or as near perfection as it is likely to become. But there are those Other principles which were so important to the former generations. Are you students Of to-day aware of them? Is it not a fact that you have come to look upon asepsis as the one thing needful, and to feel that, asepsis being accomplished, there is noth ing more to be done? Are you to be as good clinicians as were your surgical forebears? That is a question which your teachers Often ask themselves; over which they hesitate in the answer. If I name some of those general principles to which I refer they seem commonplace enough. 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.