A Short Manual of Surgical Operations PDF Download

Author: Arthur E. J. Barker
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330277904
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 452

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Excerpt from A Short Manual of Surgical Operations In writing this small work at the request of some better qualified to judge of the need of a Short Manual of Operative Surgery than himself, the author has fully recognised the difficulty of the task. On the one hand, Operative Surgery has made such vast strides of late, owing to the recognition of the antiseptic regime, that a book which should give an account of all its most recent achievements alone would have to be large; while, on the other, many of the older procedures, which are gradually being supplanted by newer operations, could not yet be left out of any manual which in the least aspired to completeness. The difficulty, in short, appeared to resolve itself into one of the selection of those of the newer procedures which ought to be familiar to all practitioners, and of those older ones which, for a time at least, are not likely to fall into disuse. In carrying out this selection the author has striven to describe the older and presumably better known operations as shortly as possible, so that in dealing with the newer and less familiar procedures more space might remain for detailed description. 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.