Excerpt from Experimental Study in Thoracic Surgery: Report of Committee on Surgery If we except a few isolated cases, recorded throughout medical literature, in which a herniated portion of lung tissue - the result of traumatism - was excised, and the removal of rare superficial tumors of the lung, pneumonectomy is, on the other hand, an essentially new operation. It is not the purpose of the writer to dwell upon the history of the first two operations mentioned, nor to present a statistical study of the results obtained up to the present time; such details may be found in the various surgical text-books and journal articles of recent years. The selection of a subject for discussion be fore this section at the present meeting was a matter of some difficulty. Having watched with great and increasing interest the labors of others in this and foreign countries, the writer decided to investigate the promising field of pneumonectomy for himself, and the present paper is the result of this decision. He has hoped to add his mite of information to the knowledge of this important subject, which he believes and predicts will, within the next ten years, become one of general inter est to the profession. 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.