Volume 1

A manual of surgery / in treatises by various authors ; edited by Frederick Treves.

Date:
1886
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A manual of surgery / in treatises by various authors ; edited by Frederick Treves. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    P E E F A C E. It is hoped that this work will present to the student and practitioner a concise account of the leading facts and principles of Modern Surgery The teaching of Surgery at the present time is so devised that the subject is separated into three departments, viz. (1) Surgery in its Clinical and Therapeutic aspects; (2) Surgical Pathology; and (3) Operative Surgery. It follows from this conventional, but convenient, division, that the library of the student of the present day will contain volumes that represent these various branches of the subject. To this scholastic or tutorial bias this Manual is con- formed. The three volumes of which it is composed are concerned mainly with the clinical, diagnostic, and therapeutic aspects of surgery. The general principles of operative surgery are dealt with, but the technical details of the various procedures are