Excerpt from Transactions of the American Surgical Association, 1920, Vol. 38 Balfour, donald church, Rochester, Minn. Associate Professor of Surgery, University of Minnesota; Surgeon to St. Mary's Hospital, Rochester. Barrow, david, M.D., 148 Market Street, Lexington, Ky. Surgeon to St. Joseph and Good Samaritan Hospitals; recently, lieut.-col., M.C.; Commanding Officer, Base Hospital 40. 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.