Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Practice of Surgery The favor with which Professor Miller's contributions have been re ceived, renders it unnecessary to pass any encomiums upon them, far ther than to state that the Second Edition of the Practice of Surgery, of which the present issue is a copy, is a great improvement upon the first; and that, in connection with the volume on the Principles, it forms one of the best expositions of the present state of Surgery in the English language. 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.