Excerpt from Operations on 459 Cases of Hernia in the Johns Hopkins Hospital From June, 1889, to January, 1899: The Special Consideration of 268 Cases Operated on by the Halsted Method, and the Transplantation of the Rectus Muscle in Certain Cases of Inguinal Hernia in Which the Conjoined Tendon Is Obliterated Associate in Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, and late Resident Surgeon, The Johns Hopkins Hospital. 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.