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Excerpt from A Text-Book on Surgery: General, Operative, and Mechanical
In an age when books upon 'this subject are plentiful, this work was undertaken not without misgivings, yet with a determination to lure nothing undone which would add to its usefulness and make it u exponent of modern and progressive surgery. Such rapid advances we being made, that marvelous results are today achieved by meas urea Mom to the profession but a few months earlier. The intro duction of comm Icydxrocklomtc as a local anaesthetic marks an epoch in mrgial practice; and yet this wonderful agent has scarcely been mentioned in works on awry. Again, the antiseptic method of heating wounds, originated within the last few years, has brought With it such protection to life and usefulness, that it deserves a more amongh consideration than is often allotted it by surgical writers, and should be universally accepted and practiced.
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