Excerpt from The Practitioners' and Students' Manual of the Science of Surgery: Being a Compendium of the Course of Lectures Delivered in the Homoeopathic College, University of Michigan My aim has been to teach the Science of Surgery in its purest and simplest manner, avoiding all technicalities and ornate phraseology, and embodying only such deductive facts as in my own judgment and personal observation, have stood the test of experience and demonstration. 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.