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Excerpt from Surgical Contributions From 1881-1916, Vol. 2: Abdominal Surgery
It is, perhaps, hardly necessary to apologize for occasional repe tition. This could onlv have been avoided by elaborate editing, and would have taken away the simplicity of the book. When it is remem hcrcd that the papers were written for different societies and journals, with different circulations, repetition was bound to occur; moreover, repetition is an absolute necessitv if a truth is to be driven home. In this Vear. When we have the benefit of the Daylight Saving Act given to us, how many must feel humiliated to think that it required a European and the example of other nations to get this idea into the heads of men who even had a reputation for being clever. Well. 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.
