The first lines of the practice of surgery : being an elementary work for students, and a concise book of reference for practitioners : part I. general surgical subjects : part II. particular surgical subjects : with nine plates / by Samuel Cooper.

  • Cooper, Samuel, 1780-1848.
Date:
1808
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Credit: The first lines of the practice of surgery : being an elementary work for students, and a concise book of reference for practitioners : part I. general surgical subjects : part II. particular surgical subjects : with nine plates / by Samuel Cooper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. IN the present work an attempt is made to lay before the reader a sketch of the principal subjects of surgery. However much the execution of the present undertaking may stand in need of indulgence, I do not conceive that the mere attempt requires any apology. Every student must have felt the want of a publi- cation, in which the symptoms and most approved treatment of surgical diseases are accurately explained in as few words as pos- sible. Every practitioner must acknowledge that a work of this kind, if executed with only moderate success, is one from which great utility will be derived. The pupil, in the interval of lec- tures, and during his walks through the wards of an hospital, cannot fail to reap instruction from a book which contains a con- cise account of the opinions and practice of the most able men who have ever shone in the surgical profession. The busy prac- titioner, little disposed to waste his time in the perusal of specula- tive and theoretical matter, is always solicitous to find, in the chapter to which he refers, a short statement of the most interest- ing practical circumstances, separated from all hypothetical dis- quisitions. As a systematic writer I have assumed the privilege of en- riching my own work with the labours of others. This plan is indispensable; for no individual will ever be found who shall give a general account of so extensive a subject as surgery, in the way in which it ought to be given, unless he make free use of the works of preceding authors. It is quite unnecessary to mention here the various sources from which I have obtained infor- mation, as I have taken care, in the subsequent columns, to make