It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.
Bio: Ann Plato was a 19th-century mixed-race educator and author. She was the second woman of color to publish a book in America and the first to publish a book of essays and poems.
