The science and art of surgery : being a treatise on surgical injuries, diseases, and operations / by John Erichsen.

  • Erichsen, John Eric, 1818-1896.
Date:
1860
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    the Consideration of Aflections of the Eyes to Injuries of those organs, their Diseases being a special subject, that would require for its proper description more space than could be allotted it in this Work. In discussing the numerous topics that are embraced in a system- atic Treatise on Surgery such as this, I have endeavored, so far as lies within its scope, and without entering into anything like an his- torical account, to ascribe to whomsoever it may be due the merit of improvements in Practice, or of discoveries in Pathology. In some cases, I may perhaps have accidentally omitted doing so, and in other instances, where the observation had become as it were the established and common property of the profession, I may pur- posely have avoided encumbering the text with names and refer- ences. In order to remedy this deficiency to some extent, I would beg to refer the reader to the more special Treatises on the subject- matter of the diflerent chapters. Thus I would particularly direct his attention to the admirable Lectures on Pathology by Mr. Paget, to which I have been much indebted in preparing the chapters or Inflammation and on Tumors. To the works by Sir B. Brodie on Diseases of the Joints and Urinary Organs, to the Treatise of Stanley on the Bones, of Lawrence on Hernia, of Fergusson on Practical Surgery, of Cooper on Fractures and Dislocations, of Travers on Injuries of the Intestines, of Guthrie on Wounds of Arteries, of Sir E. Carswell on the Elementary Forms of Disease, and to those of Acton and Langston Parker on Syphilis. To the most excellent works of my former teachers, Samuel Cooper and Eobert Liston, whose names I cannot mention without a ready and deep-felt expres- sion of gratitude for much valuable instruction and personal kind- ness received from them in former years, I would especially refer the reader. For any clerical errors in the work, I must beg the reader's indulgence. It has been prepared and written in the midst of the harassing and onerous duties that devolve upon a Hospital Sur- geon, a Teacher of Surgery, and a Private Practitioner in the Me- tropolis, and which are but little favorable to literary pursuits. In conclusion, I must express my acknowledgments to Mr. Hulme for much valuable assistance in carrying this volume through the Press. JOHN ERICHSEN. London, September, 1857.