A system of practical surgery / By William Fergusson ; with illustrations by Bagg.

  • William Fergusson
Date:
1846
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Credit: A system of practical surgery / By William Fergusson ; with illustrations by Bagg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    P R E V A C E. It Ims l)L‘Cii tlif olijcct tlinMiirliout the whole of tiii> work to |iro(iiicc a inaniml of the (ietail< of Pmetienl Siircrery, whieli shall, in some degree, meet the wishes anil wants of the Student, as well as the Siirareon already engaged in praetiee. All hyiiothetieal doetrines Imve heen avoided as imich as possOigitized 1 by'the''Internet^ ArehiN/ei'i' logv has heen dispensed with as iimeh as cireimistanees would permit, ehielly on the ground that the latter suhjeet, besides being too extensive to lie treated in sueh a manner, forms oidv a part of that extended edueation on whieh a seientilie know- ledge of Surgery ean alone he based. For the .same reasons, too, the seienees of Chemistry, Fharmacy, Materia I^Iediea, and others, whieh are ineluded in the eurrieulum of medienl study, have searecly been referred to ; — not because thev ari’ irrelevant to the I’raetiee of Surgery, but because each, in a manner, forms a .separate department of that sv.stem of in- struction which belongs alike to the I’hy.sician and the Sur- geon, and which every properly (jualirted medical man must have pursued ere he heeomes a recoernised practitioner. illustration of certain ii eustom of interspersing https://archive.org/details/b22027609