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Excerpt from Wounds of the Brain: An Essay Read by Appointment Before the Luzerne County Medical Society at Wilkes-Barre, Jan'y 14, 1885
There are two classes of diseases, and likewise of injuries, the treatment of which has not yet been very gen erally agreed upon, and which seems likely to long remain unsettled. I refer to those widely differing conditions in which the disease or the injury is so slight that the unaided efforts of nature usually suffice to effect a restoration to health, or a complete repair of the injury; and to those malignant diseases and grave injuries in which the best directed therapeutic or surgical skill appears to exert but little power in averting a fatal termination. Whatever is done for the one class of cases seems to succeed; and con sequently an endless variety of supposed remedies and of surgical procedures, each asserting superiority over its rivals, claims our adoption; while, on the other hand, what ever means we apply or whatever measures we adopt, are usually doomed to failure, and acquire only disrepute. 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.
