Italics is represented with _underscores_ and small caps with ALL CAPS. Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained. The following corrections have been made: p. 15 it is unnecsary -> unnecsary changed to unnecessary p. 46 cavity as it probably has) -> added opening bracket (as it probably has) p. 99 sodium salycilate -> salycilate changed to salicylate Everything else (including inconsistent hyphenation and archaic spelling) has been retained as printed. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Backwoods Surgery & Medicine, by Charles Stuart Moody