The aseptic treatment of wounds / by C. Schimmelbusch ; with a preface by Prof. Bergmann ; tr. from the 2nd German ed. by Alfred Theodore Rake.

  • Schimmelbusch, Curt, 1860-1895.
Date:
1894
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Credit: The aseptic treatment of wounds / by C. Schimmelbusch ; with a preface by Prof. Bergmann ; tr. from the 2nd German ed. by Alfred Theodore Rake. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    2 1917 THE ASEPTIC TREATMENT OE WOUNDS, CHAPTER I. The Importance of the Aseptic Treatment of Wounds. A comparison of the results of modern surgery with those of the past—Rapid healing—The fear of predisposition to inflamma- tion, or of the patient's age, is a thing of the past—The exten- sion of the domain of surgery—Recognition of the causes of the infection of wounds—Lister. It is well for us, who have profited by the achievements of our predecessors, and who watch the progress of science perhaps not without occasional misgivings, to look back upon the past and gauge the value of what we have inherited. We need not go back to ancient times, in which the performances of surgery were cramped by want of anatomical and physiological knowledge, no less than by imperfect technique ; we need go no further back than thirty or forty years. Let us compare the modern epoch of our science with that period, in which the highest abilities and a degree of operative skill, that we cannot hope to surpass, were powerless to control the dark issues of the fate that hovered over the wounded, making all calculations of the results of operations futile. At that time, the idea of a wound was inseparable from that of fever ; the healing of a wound without inflammation was not B