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                        The Cure of Rupture

                                 BY

                        Paraffin Injections

                                 BY

                      CHARLES C. MILLER, M. D.

     _Comprising a description of a method of treatment destined
          to occupy an important place as a cure for rupture
            owing to the extreme simplicity of the technic
                and its advantages from an economic
                            standpoint_




                              CHICAGO
                  Oak Printing Co., 9 Wendell St.
                                1908




                           Copyright 1908
                        By Charles C. Miller




                             FOREWORD.


In taking up the description of the injection of paraffin for the cure
of hernia a number of remarks of a prefatory nature are called for, as
it is necessary to justify a treatment which has come in for a
considerable censure from surgeons who have had no experience with the
method and who have judged solely from a few mishaps which came to
