With due regard for the necessary precautions, there is practically no danger in such an injection, but it should be attempted only by those who are able to carry it through in a surgically clean way.
"Special Report on Diseases of Cattle"
U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler
He had aged greatly in the past three years, since being thrown out of a carriage, and went to the hospital in July to be treated surgically.
"The Letters of William James, Vol. II"
William James
The incredible creature knew little or nothing of its own nervous system and would not have been aware of loss if the most essential portion of its brain had been surgically removed!
"The Short Life"
Francis Donovan