The Necessity of Complete Extirpation of Tumours and the Importance of Rapid Cicatrization of the Wound

This is a pamphlet which aims at proving that, " There can be at this time little doubt that the reason of the failure of the older surgeons to obtain satisfactory results (in excisions of the mamma, &c., for cancer) was due, in the first place, to septic infection, and in the second place, to late and incomplete operations. The remedy seems at pi'esent to be largely in the hands of the general practitioner, as well as in those of the surgeon, for, as we have seen, much depends upon the promptness with which the operation is advised and performed. Too much stress cannot be laid