The principles and practice of modern surgery / by Robert Druitt.

  • Druitt, Robert, 1814-1883.
Date:
1854
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    The notes which occur at the foot of almost every page will, I hope show my anxiety to acknowledge every source of information wnich J have availed myself of. The Appendix of Formulae, which I am told has proved of oreat ser- vice to young practitioners, has been entirely re-arranged, and very much enlarged. I may observe, that all the Formulas have been amply tested by experience, and that they agree in all essential particulars with those used by the ablest practitioners of the day. The number of Wood Engravings has been increased. Those which have been added to this edition have been drawn under ray superintend- ence by my friend Dr. Westmacott, and in every case the drawing is a faithful representation of nature;—not an imaginary diagram. I have now the grateful task of expressing my thanks to the numerous friends who have in many ways assisted me in my labours. To Mr. Partridge, Mr. Fergusson, Dr. Todd, and their colleagues, the other Professors in King's College, and Medical Officers at the College Hospital, I am under particular obligations for the privilege of constantly witnessing their practice, and for the permission they gave me to have drawings made from a great number of the preparations in the College Museum. &To Mr Arnott and the Medical Officers of the Middlesex Hospital, to Mr Pres- cott Hewett and the Medical Officers of St. George's, and to Mr. Lane I am likewise indebted for permission to avail myself of some of the pre- parations in their respective Museums for a similar purpose. I have to thank Dr. George Johnson for an admirable drawing of Pus Globules (the most correct I believe that has yet been published), as well as for the opportunity of inspecting his microscopic preparations of Kidney Disease ; and Mr. Iomes for much valuable information respecting Diseased Bone and Teeth To Mr. Tovnbee, Mr. Lonsdale, Mr. James Duncan, Mr. Houlton, Dr. Sprague of Bath, and Mr. Masters the Curator of the 3^ollef Museu1m:J ^> these, and to many other friends and corre- spondents at home and m America, with whom I have had the privilege of becoming acquainted by means of this work, I must return my warmest acknowledgments^for many a valuable hint, and kind mark of approbation Of the lt\Z7 ? I I™* ™?™&d ™y be very briefly explained. devofJ tl 5? ° T °h ll 1S dlvlded> the fi«* two are moe especially The^nrst nart trP^1Pf ^ ^ *? ^T 0therS t0 the V^L of ™^l that accomniJ Tf 1 \ ^T dlSturbances of the constitution at large, SesSZisJXn°ll0Wthefvan0u? accidents and local diseases which collapsf that fol ™ U?T t0 tref; b6ginninS with the simple faintness or feve^ and proceeding to consider those varieties of The second nt T u* *** be CaUSed b? loca] Nation, sues, on theirK& T ^^ 0n the vita% °f «« *■ func ions by temoetw K' T °™at'?ns. *d their other mysterious operation' « ^^^^^T' ,d b? °'>«r causes whose Scribed in the <^^^^*amtF.™Mi F™esses are lcn seen>ed most conducive to practical utility,