New Elements of Operative Surgery, Vol. 2 of 3 (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from New Elements of Operative Surgery, Vol. 2 of 3 Another source of extreme satisfaction to me will be in the reflection that the profession in after times, perhaps, may not be unwilling to bestow their oommen dation upon these efforts. But a still higher source of gratification I frankly confess, is that of the conviction, that in my attachment to a long-cherished, per sonal, and honored friend, preceptor and kinsman, and one whose eminent skill justly fills so large a Space in Surgical history, (dr. Mott, ) I may have been, as I pledged myself I would be, (see Vol. I instrumental both for him, and for his country, in rescuing the details of all his great and master operations, and discoveries, and improvements in surgical processes and principles, from that indistinctness into which they were necessarily passing, by his neglect, (culpa ble, it would be, but from his repugnance to self-laudation, ) to gather them toge ther as I now have done in these volumes, from the scattered Medical and Surgi cal periodicals and fugitive works, in which they had been briefly registered, successively as they emanated from his great practical mind, or were created ia to existence by his incomparable genius and consummate skill. 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.