The principles of surgery : clinical, medical, and operative ; an original analysis of pathology systematically conducted, and a critical exposition of its guidance, at the bedside and in operations / by Frederick James Gant.

  • Gant, Frederick James, 1825-1905.
Date:
MDCCCLXIV. [1864]
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Credit: The principles of surgery : clinical, medical, and operative ; an original analysis of pathology systematically conducted, and a critical exposition of its guidance, at the bedside and in operations / by Frederick James Gant. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PROSPECTUS OF CONTENTS. THE PEINCIPLES OP SUEGEEY. Introduction, (p. 1—18.) Historical Review of Medicine and Surgery—Origin of Pathological Surgery— The distinctive foundation and object of this Work—Principles are attained by the analysis of General Pathology, and are coextensive with all Diagnosis— Etiology, respecting internal causes and their operation—Prognosis and Therapeutics: such Principles are earliest and most exact: their Preventive and Conservative character explained; they extend to Medicine, and tend to elevate Medicine and Surgery unitedly to the rank of a Science; while, by their character, they are eminently Practical. The Elements of Pathological Anatomy; being the foundation of the Principles advanced in this Work, are systematically described—The author’s Tabular view of General Pathology, (p. 19—142.) PATHOLOGICAL SUEGEEY. THE PRINCIPLES OF CLINICAL SURGERY, OR THOSE OF DIAGNOSIS, ETIOLOGY, AND PROGNOSIS. Prelude, (p. 143—150.) The Surgeon at the bedside—The Preliminary Questions to be determined on behalf of Diagnosis—Etiology, respecting internal causes and their operation 5 and Prognosis—Their Patbologieal character, and mutual relation to rational Therapeutics—The earliest and most exact solution of the Questions alluded to, and the establishment of corresponding Principles, in each of these De- partments of Surgery, by the Analysis of Pathology, will beeome apparent in the course of this Work—The immediate bearing of these Pathological b 2