Excerpt from Travels in Europe and the East In reflecting upon a suitable subject for an introductory lecture, after accepting of the Professorship of Surgery in the University of this city, with which I was honoured before my return from abroad, I knew of nothing that seemed more appropriate than a summary of the general observations which I had made on the progress and condition of medicine and surgery in the different countries I had visited during my six years' absence. I found, however, that, to do justice to the theme I had proposed, it expanded to such volume on matters of miscellaneous interest to the general reader as well as on those strictly professional, that it might more properly assume the form of a book of travels. In Great Britain, France, Germany, and Switzerland, it will be perceived that I have studiously avoided touching upon those tedious and trite subjects which have been completely worn threadbare by guide-books and tourists, and become repugnant and insipid by their repetition. My attention has been confined, in those countries named, almost exclusively to subjects of more special and piquant interest in my own profession. 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.