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Excerpt from A Report on the Progress of Surgery Made to the St. Louis Medical Society
In venturing upon the subject of amputations we have, per haps, nothing to Offer that is new, or not generally known to the profession, and shall therefore only notice briefly the discus sion of some operations which are not definitely established in practice. In reviewing the history of this special branch of surgery, we can claim but little advance for it within the past few years. Indeed the. Light of knowledge in regard to this once most formi dable and dreaded Of operations, which burst upon it with the introduction of the ligature by Ambrose Pare, in 1560, seemed to be almost perfected by that of the tourniquet by Morrel in 1674. And yet there is probably no operation in surgery that has emerged from such a veil of darkness and dread, as that of amputation. 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.
