PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION. 



The rapid exhaustion of our first edition has been highly 

 gratifying to the author by indicating the appreciation of 

 students and practitioners. 



We now submit a second edition which has been revised 

 and somewhat extended. In our revision we acknowledge 

 with thanks numerous valued suggestions from Drs. I/iau- 

 tard, Adams, Udall and others to which we have given 

 careful consideration. 



As before it has been aimed to continue the volume as a 

 brief, concise handbook of the technic of a number of the 

 most important surgical proceeduresj omitting the details 

 common to all or most operations, and assumed that the 

 student or practitioner has learned these otherwise. 



Our illustrations have been materially changed from the 

 first edition. Plates IX, XI, XIV, XX, XXI, XXIV. 

 XXV, XXVI, XXVIII, XXXI, XXXII, and Figures 

 I to 8 and 12 to 14 are from Pffeiffer's Operations-Cursus, 

 while the other plates and figures have been made especially 

 for this work under our personal supervision. 



The present edition is submitted with a full conscious- 

 ness of its many defects. 



W. ly. Williams, 

 Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 



December, 1906. 



