Excerpt from Surgical Operations of the Head: Illustrated by Clinical Observations, for Physicians and Surgeons For many years it has been my intention to present an exposition of the operations of surgery from their clinical aspect. According to this plan, each individual case was to be supplied with a history, a short account of the symptoms, as well as an adequate statement of the course and after-treatment, and, in the cases which ended fatally, with the more important findings from the autopsy record. The preliminary labors have advanced so far in the last few years that we are now approaching the completion of the entire work, and are able to present to the public the first section. Exact protocols of the various operative procedures have been dictated by me, while Max Landsberg, painter, without in any way interrupting the course of the operation, has prepared sketches of the different steps. This material forms the foundation for a representation which, as I believe, will be practically exhaustive for the particular purpose intended; for the extraordinary variety of diseases which are met with in the Augusta Hospital offers us all the surgical operations in such number that we can exercise a strict choice. At the same time I have considered it a duty to publish an inclusive review of this interesting material, such as will be found in the following chapters. Since I hold to the point of view that specialization in surgery should be avoided, if one desires not to become one-sided, I take particular satisfaction in being able to devote my career to a hospital in which, since Ernst Küster's effectual work, general surgery in the truest sense of the term has been practiced. Even those operative procedures which for a long time have been separated from surgery into specialties of their own, for instance, those of gynecology and those of aural surgery, find a place with us. For that reason we have introduced in addition a series of operations on the female organs and on the auditory apparatus, in so far as, according to my conviction, every hospital surgeon is confronted by them and must be in a position to carry them out. In my chief physician of many years' standing, Dr. Emil Heymann, I have found an experienced collaborator, who has given me great assistance in mastering the extensive material, and who is accordingly associated with me in this publication. 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.