Excerpt from Lectures to Practitioners: On the Diseases of the Kidney Amenable to Surgical Treatment As a preparation for these Lectures an endeavour was made to bring together a complete collection of operations upon the kidney. With this aim a circular was addressed to surgeons, asking them to fill up an accompanying schedule giving certain details of their cases. In response to this appeal, not only was the subsequent history of a large number of published cases supplied, but also returns were made of many private operations performed at home and abroad. For this assistance the author desires to express his appreciation and 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.