A manual of minor surgery / By John H. Packard ... With 145 illustrations. Authorized and adopted by the surgeon-general of the United States army for the use of surgeons in the field and general hospitals.

  • Packard, John H. (John Hooker), 1832-1907.
Date:
1863
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Credit: A manual of minor surgery / By John H. Packard ... With 145 illustrations. Authorized and adopted by the surgeon-general of the United States army for the use of surgeons in the field and general hospitals. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    PREFACE The aim kept in view in the preparation of the following pages bas been to produce a practical manual; to put the reader in possession of clear directions for the ordinary duties (minor but not unimportant) of the practice of surgery. Some points belonging to the principles of the science have been necessarily touched upon; and a rigid critic might perhaps take exception to some of the matters introduced, as belonging to general and not to minor sur- gery. But here, as elsewhere in dealing with medical subjects, it is hard to draw a precise boundary-line, and better to overstep it than to fall short of it. The author has endeavored in every case to present the best method of attaining the object sought, with such others as may afford desirable substitutes for it. Objec- tionable plans, or such as have deservedly fallen into disuse, have been either passed over in silence, or men- tioned in the way of condemnation. Especial reference has always been had to such emergencies as constantly arise in civil as well as military practice.