The surgery of the rectum : comprising the Lettsomian lectures on surgery delivered before the Medical Society of London, 1865 / by Henry Smith.

Date:
1882
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Credit: The surgery of the rectum : comprising the Lettsomian lectures on surgery delivered before the Medical Society of London, 1865 / by Henry Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION The Three Lectures of which this work consists were delivered before the Medical Society of London, in my capacity of Lettsomian Professor of Surgery for the year 1864-65. My observations were on each occasion so favorably received by a large and attentive audience, that I hesitate not to publish them just as they were delivered. The entire subject of the Surgery of the Rectum could not, of course, be discussed within the time allotted for Three Lectures, and therefore my object has been to draw attention to some of the more important points connected with this department of Practical Surgery, especially to those points upon which the information contained in books of special writers is somewhat scanty. It will be perceived that the use of my improved clamp in the treatment of hsemor-