A brief description of surgical apparatus : intended to accompany a series of delineations of the most important mechanical auxiliaries of surgery / by Henry T. Chapman.

  • Chapman, Henry T. (Henry Thomas), 1806-1874.
Date:
1832
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Credit: A brief description of surgical apparatus : intended to accompany a series of delineations of the most important mechanical auxiliaries of surgery / by Henry T. Chapman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE In undertaking the following work, the author has been chiefly influenced by a recollection of the difficulties experienced by himself, and shared by many a fellow student, when first entering upon the management of surgical cases in which mechanical assistance was required, in conse- quence of a very imperfect practical acquaintance with the scattered resources of this branch of surgery. The importance of this knowledge is sufficiently manifest, and its cultivation is strongly urged by every writer on the subject. Independent of the intrinsic value it bears, a consideration of another kind must be allowed some weight; the reputa- tion of a young surgeon is more frequently found- ed upon address displayed even in the most com- mon manoeuvres of this department, than on the possession of more solid but less conspicuous qualifications; for as every looker-on can appre- ciate the manner of their execution, they are made the standard by which his general ability is estimated.