Excerpt from Clinical Notes on Uterine Surgery: With Special Reference to the Management of the Sterile Condition
In 1862, I voluntarily left my own country, on account of its political troubles. Our unfortunate civil war continued much longer than any of us, North or South, anticipated. In consequence of this my residence abroad was prolonged far beyond my original intention. I therefore had time to look over my note-books, and to cull such facts as illustrate the method of treating Uterine Disease at the Woman's Hospital. These facts are strung together in the form of these "Notes."
Having an innate horror of writing, I have not tried to make a book; on the contrary, I have simply related in detail my various operations, and given the history of cases in which circumstances led me to adopt a modified procedure, or for which I have devised new forms of instruments.
A clinical report of this sort very naturally divides itself into groups of cases which may be made illustrative of the principles of practice.
In my own country my contributions have generally been received with kindness; and although I have reason to hope that they will have a friendly reception here, still, as I make no literary pretensions, it is with the greatest diffidence that I appear as an author on this side of the Atlantic.
As its title indicates, this collection of "Clinical Notes" lays no claim whatever to the character of a systematic work.
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