Book excerpt: Excerpt from New York Medical Journal, Vol. 83: Incorporating the Philadelphia Medical Journal and the Medical News; January to June, 1906, Inclusive They are and have been well recognized surgical conditions, and their avoidance and relief have given rise to much speculation. Still no definite or generally accepted procedure has been adopted. It is somewhat surprising how different surgeons have expressed themselves on these postoperative results, based both on their own and other oper ators' cases. I have encountered these complica tions in my personal experience and have noted them also as results of other operators' work. 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.