Excerpt from The Surgical Treatment the Diseases of Infancy and Childhood It has long been a favourite project of mine to endeavour to supply an admitted want in our surgical literature by publishing a systematic treatise on the practical surgery of children's diseases. Much material exists in the valuable Lectures of Mr. Athol Johnson and Mr. Bryant; in the interesting record which Mr. Cooper Forster has given of his individual experience; in the Notices sur la Chirurgie des Enfants of M. Guersant; the clinical lectures now in course of preparation by M. Giralde's; and in the great repertory on this branch of medicine, the Journal fur Kinderkrankheiten. I have endeavoured to combine in a moderate compass the most useful matter that I could find in these and other sources, with the results of my own nine years' experience at the Children's Hospital, so as to form a practical guide to the general surgery of early life. Some special subjects I have omitted, viz. diseases of the eye and ear, orthopædics, and diseases of the skin; not because I am in favour of the present fashion of cutting up surgery into little pieces, but because the volume had already exceeded what I intended; and these subjects are all excellently treated in works which are in everybody's hands. 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.