Excerpt from Druitt's Surgeon's Vade-Mecum: A Manual of Modern Surgery Surgery, of which I recently read the proofs and revises, I have rather avoided, lest obvious plagiarism should creep in; but to it and to its editor my warmest acknowledgments are certainly due. In the section on operative surgery also the effect of Mr. Beck's teaching is very evident. Minor references are made in the text. Seventy-three new woodcuts have been added, and among them an almost complete series illustrating the ligation of arteries. These were drawn from operations on the dead subject, and most of them are of life size: they are intended to show, not the anatomy of the artery, but the wound as it really is; and it is hoped that they will enable the student easily to perform the operations on post-mortem subjects, if he will place the book alongside the limb to be operated upon. 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.