Excerpt from Archives of Surgery, 1890, Vol. 1

It may seem almost a work of presumption to begin the issue of a J ournal to which I purpose, with but very few exceptions, to be the sole contributor. The fact is, that I have a very large store of clinical material, much of which is carefully edited and ready for the press. My engagements are such as to preclude that continuous attention which is needful to prepare a book. I can only do fragmentary work, and I am much attracted to a form of publication which will permit of my recurring to the same subject should it seem desirable to make additions or corrections.

I have been, from the earliest part of my professional career, an industrious note-taker, and from time to time I have given both myself and my friends much trouble in the endeavour to make my cases complete. The latter have in many instances very kindly spared no pains to obtain for me the final results in cases of which the first notes had been taken years before. In many of these the cases are of such a nature that I cannot mention the names of those who have assisted me, but I should feel to be ungrateful were I not to do my best to put the results of their labours to some practical use.

It is not intended that the issue of the archives shall continue beyond a limited time. Coloured illustrations are already in preparation, which at the rate of four for each quarterly number will serve for three years. This period, should my life continue and health permit, may probably be about the duration of my Journal. It is proposed, as will be surmised from the headings of the plates, to publish the whole of them together as a Smaller Atlas at the con elusion of the archives. They will comprise very similar sub jects to those already given in my Atlas of Illustrations of Clinical Surgery, but will in very few cases be copied from it. The scope of the Anomvss will be wide, and is perhaps fairly indicated by the contents of No. I. The division of subjects under the special headings which are adopted in this number is not however intended to be permanent, but will be varied from time to time. I shall devote special attention to the endeavour to make my cases tell their own tale, and shall consider as my objects the elucidation of symptoms and the development of principles of treatment.

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