Excerpt from The Surgical Treatment of the Diseases of Infancy and Childhood Tin second edition of this book has been so rapidly called for, that I have not been able to make those changes in its main features which advancing experience always introduces into practical surgical works. The bulk of the succeeding chapters, therefore, will be found to be in substance the same as those of the first edition. I have, however, endeavoured to avail myself of some of the suggestions of my critics for the improvement of this book as a practical guide to children's surgery. Thus, having found that the omission of orthopaedic surgery is considered in many quarters to diminish its value, and learning from the publishers that the necessary increase in size will not be objectionable, I have added a chapter, in which I have tried to summarise in the smallest possible compass the main points connected with this wide subject. In deference also to a French critic I have added a few pages on thoracentesis. 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.

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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.

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