Contributions to reparative surgery : showing its application to the treatment of deformities, produced by destructive disease or injury ; congenital defects from arrest or excess of development, and cicatricial contractions from burns / by Gurdon Buck.

  • Buck Gurdon, 1807-1877.
Date:
1877
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Credit: Contributions to reparative surgery : showing its application to the treatment of deformities, produced by destructive disease or injury ; congenital defects from arrest or excess of development, and cicatricial contractions from burns / by Gurdon Buck. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    PREFACE. The volume now offered to the medical profes- sion contains the author’s own experience in the department of practical surgery of which it treats. While it makes no claim to be a systematic and thor- ough treatise on the subject, it will, nevertheless, be found to contain, in a classified order, much that is treated in existing works on plastic surgery. It is believed also, that, in addition to this, something new and useful has been contributed to the resources of surgical art. There is no department of surgery where the ingenuity and skill of the surgeon are more severely taxed than when required to repair the damage sustained by the loss of parts, or to re- move the disfigurement produced by destructive dis- ease or violence, or to remedy the deformities of con- genital malformation. The results obtained in such cases within the last half century are among the