Excerpt from The American Practitioner and News, 1892: A Bi-Weekly Journal of Medicine and Surgery; Volumes XIII and XIV In the daily work of the surgeon he is often confronted with cases that he would not choose to operate on for the sake of statistics, but which he is compelled to undertake as giving the only chance for the patient's life. It was my misfortune during last month to have two such instances, both proving fatal after the operation, and a third death following an oper ation done for convenience only. They are all interesting and more or less instructive. 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.