Emergency surgery, for the general practitioner.

  • Sluss, John W. (John William), 1867-
Date:
1910
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Credit: Emergency surgery, for the general practitioner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    This is a Surgery for the general practitioner; written not to instru< t his leisure hour, but in the hope sometime to serve as a guide out of uncertainty in a time of stress. Its merits and demerits should be reckoned from that point of view alone. If, occasionally, the form of expression seems dogmatic, it merely comports with the constant aim to be practical; certainly that aim has denied any place to theoretic al discussions and has curtailed reference to the various views of recog- nized authority. An absence of bibliography, it is hoped, therefore, will not be regarded as discourtesy to the many writers, teachers, and practitioners whose ideas have been so freely appropriated. Among the text-books more constantly consulted are Senn's Practical Surgery, The American Text-book of Surgery, Walsham's Surgery, Treves' Operative Surgery, Lejars' Chirurgie d'Urgence, Veau's Chirurgie d'Urgence et Pratique Courante, Von Bergmann's Chirurgie, and Binnie's Operative Surgery. The Annals of Surgery, the American Journal of Surgery, the Inter national Journal of Surgery, and the Journal of the American Medical Association have been prolific sources of information. For advice and aid in many ways in the preparation of this book, Bpecial thanks are due Drs. John J. Kyle, James H. Ford, A. \V. Brayton, and Gustav Bergener. The original illustrations are the work of Dr. Helen Knabe. To the publishers, through whose counsel and patient criticism the book has grown into its present form, a grateful appreciation is to be expressed. J. W. S. DC