Excerpt from Gall-Stones and Their Surgical Treatment The rapid exhaustion of the first edition of this work has allowed neither time nor opportunity for any great alteration in the text. Many additional case-records have been incorporated in various chapters; several new illustrations have been added, for some of which I am indebted to Mr. Rutherford Morison, and a new chapter has been added on the Congenital Abnormalities of the Gall-bladder and Bile-ducts. Several critics have considered the chapter dealing with the details of preparation for operations as unnecessary in a work of this kind; but many surgeons, in whose opinion I have confidence, have urged me to allow the chapter to remain. The whole text has undergone a careful revision, and an earnest endeavour has been made to give expression to the considered opinions of those who are working most fruitfully in this field of surgery. I omitted in the preface to the former edition to express my thanks to the Curator of the Museum at the London Hospital for permission to reproduce photographs of several specimens. Most of the new figures have been drawn for me by Miss Ethel M. Wright to whom I again tender my thanks. 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.