A TREATISE ON LESSER SURGERY; OR THE MINOR SURGICAL OPERATIONS. BY BOURGERY, D. M. P. Author of "A Complete Treatise on Human Anatomy, comprising Operative Medicine." Translated from the French, with notes and an Appendix; by WILLIAM C. ROBERTS AND JAS. B. KISSAM. Copy of a letter from WILLIAM GIBSON, M. D. Professor of Surgery in the University of Pennsylvania. _Philadelphia, Nov. 5th_, 1833. It gives me pleasure to say that the elementary work on Surgery, by M. Bourgery, and now under translation by Drs. Roberts and Kissam of New York, appears to me _well calculated for the use of students_. So far as I can judge from examination of a small portion of the English text, justice has been done by the translators to the author of the work. W. GIBSON, M. D. _Professor of Surgery in the University of Pennsylvania_. Copy of a letter from GEORGE M'CLELLEN, M. D. Professor of Surgery in the Jefferson Medical College. _Philadelphia, Nov 6th, 1833._ Dear Sirs, I have examined Bourgery's manual, or work on Lesser Surgery, and am of opinion that it is an _excellent compend_, which contains a great deal of matter that will be useful to students. The translation which you are about to make, will deserve a large edition, and I have no doubt will meet with a ready sale. Yours truly, GEO. M'CLELLAN. DRS. ROBERTS AND KISSAM. * * * * * TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES 1. Passages in italics are surrounded by _underscores_. 2. Obvious errors in punctuation have been silently corrected. 3. The original text includes Greek characters. For this text version these letters have been replaced with transliterations. 4. Certain words use oe ligature in the original. 5. Other than the corrections listed above, printer's inconsistencies in spelling, punctuation, hyphenation, and ligature usage have been retained. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Nuts to crack; or Quips, quirks, anecdote and facete of Oxford and Cambridge Scholars, by Richard Gooch