The student's handbook of the surgery of the alimentary canal / by A. Ernest Maylard.

  • Maylard, A. Ernest (Alfred Ernest), 1854-1947.
Date:
1900
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Credit: The student's handbook of the surgery of the alimentary canal / by A. Ernest Maylard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    made to tabulate a scheme of operations upon the alimentary canal which shall possess a reasonable and workable basis for comparison. Throughout the book the various opera¬ tions are described in accordance with this scheme, due regard, however, being had for such as are frequently understood in a practical sense different from that herein suggested. Many of the illustrations in the Treatise have been retained, while a few new ones have been added. Some of those retained are from the excellent photographs originally taken for me by Dr. Grant Andrew from patho¬ logical specimens in the Hunterian Museum, and in the Museums of the Royal, Western, and Victoria Infirmaries of Glasgow, known in the text by the letters R.I.M., W.I.M., and V.I.M. affixed. In conclusion, I should state that the actual region of the alimentary canal treated extends from the upper end of* the oesophagus to the lower end of the rectum proper; in other words, the diseases of the mouth, fauces and pharynx above, and those, such as haemorrhoids, fistula-in-ano and fissure, of the anus proper below are not dealt with. The object of the work is solely to study those more hidden parts of the tract where similarity, either in pathology or in symptoms, is as likely to elucidate as it is to mislead in the differential diagnosis of disease and its appropriate treatment. A. ERNEST MAYLARD. Glasgow, March l*t, U)00.