Excerpt from The History and Progress of Surgery: An Address, Delivered to the Medical Students of the Melbourne Hospital on the Occasion of the Presentation of the Prizes in the Class of Operative Surgey This Lecture was delivered on Friday, 14th December, 1877, in the Operating Theatre of the Melbourne Hospital, by Mr. James George Beaney, F.R.C.S.E., Senior Surgeon, on the occasion of the presentation of the gold and silver medals for proficiency in operative surgery, adjudged to certain of the students who attended his Lectures during the past session. 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.