Excerpt from The Student's Handbook of Surgical Operations The present work is intended for the use of students who are preparing for the final examinations, or who need a hand-book to assist them in carrying out operations upon the dead body. The book is abridged from the author's large Manual of Opera, tive Surgery. That work aims at dealing in an exhaustive manner With the whole subject of Opera tive surgery, or of treatment by operation. This hand-book concerns itself only with the most essen tial and most commonly performed operations. All matters save such as deal with the actual technical details of operative surgery have been omitted. I have not discussed the general principles of Operative surgery, nor have I entered into a critical considera tion of the value of various methods. I have assumed that the reader is familiar With the anatom y of the district concerned in each section, and I have omitted all accounts of the after-treatment. I have given no description of instruments and have left untouched the subjects of mortality and results. 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.