Antiseptic surgery; the principles, modes of application, and results of the Lister dressing / Tr. from the 2d and completely rev. ed. with the special sanction of the author, and ed. by Frederic Henry Gerrish.

  • Lucas-Championnière, Just Marie Marcellin, 1843-1913.
Date:
1881
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Credit: Antiseptic surgery; the principles, modes of application, and results of the Lister dressing / Tr. from the 2d and completely rev. ed. with the special sanction of the author, and ed. by Frederic Henry Gerrish. 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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    TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. Although for more than a decade it has been hardly pos- sible to glance through a medical journal without seeing something concerning the Lister method, there are compara- tively few medical men in this country who have a sufficiently good knowledge of this modern system of treating wounds to enable them to apply it with essential accuracy. The result is that it is either not used at all by most surgeons, or else is incorrectly employed with disappointing results, which are not fairly attributable to the method. This con- dition of affairs is probably largely due to the fact that there has been no low-priced treatise on the subject in the English language, from which one could acquire the necessary infor- mation with regard to the principles, practice, and results of Antiseptic Surgery. With the desire of supplying my fellow practitioners in America with such a work, and thus enabling them to experience the benefits of a method which will do more than any other to lead their surgical patients to re- covery without delay, danger, or discomfort, I have translated this work of an eminent French surgeon. Its careful perusal will, I believe, make it plain, not only that the Listerian theory is rational and its practice wonderfully satisfactory, but also that its application is neither difficult, nor seriously expensive.