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Excerpt from Castration (Including Cryptorchids and Caponing) And Ovariotomy
Until recent years operations involving the interior of the abdomen have been considered to be accompanied by the gravest risks, and the percentage of fatalities used, indeed, to justify this assumption. Nowadays, however, thanks to the researches of Pasteur and their adaptation by Lister to modern surgery, the introduction of antiseptic methods have altered all that, and the surgery of the abdomen has taken its proper place with that of any other part of the body. It is not to be inferred that an abdominal operation should be lightly undertaken, as, of course, it will always figure as a major one, but the results of present-day work show that, with careful manipulation and strict attention to true surgical cleanliness, the proportions of successful sequela are quite as great as with any other operation of importance. 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.
