The principles and practice of operative surgery.

  • Skey, Frederic C. (Frederic Carpenter), 1798-1872.
Date:
1858
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    OPERATIVE SURGERY. CHAPTER I. IN DISPENSABILITY OF OPERATIVE SURGERY AS A BRANCH OF MEBICINB REQUISITES FOR PRE-EMINENT RANK IN OPERATIVE SnRGEKY — INDISPENSABILITY OP ANATOMICAL KNOWLEDGE ■—■ DUTY OP ASSISTANTS — MORAL RELATION OP THE SURGEON TO THE PATIENT INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY OP THE OPERATOR ARRANGEMENTS OF THE OPERATING ROOM — DUTY TO PATIENTS — CONDUCT IN THE CASES OP CHILDREN CHLOROFORM EXCEPTIONS TO ITS USE TREATMENT PREPARATORY TO OPERATIONS OPERATIONS OP EXPE- DIENCY—AFTER TREATMENT. It has been often asserted, with some show of truth, is operative that operative sm-gery is the confession of ignorance and opprobrium the opprobrium of medicine ; but it is not really so. of medicine? When an operation is resorted to for the purpose of removing from the body a part diseased, which the skill or the patience of another man would have cured by the hand of natm-e, then alone does an operation become opprobrious. So long as man is the subject of accidents, by which his limbs are lacerated, or otherwise violently disorganized—of tumours, whose increasing size and rela- tions are injurious to the growth, or to the free actions of the ti-unk or hmbs—of defoi-mities, or indeed of many other diseases, so long, probably, will the knife be re- sorted to, as om-legitimate and only resource, against a greater evil. The knife shoidd be essentially conservative in Its operation; not to be employed as a shield to igno- rance, or the stepping-stone to notoriety, but solely as the compulsory alternative to an evil of greater magni- tude. In the profession of a sui-geon the employment of the knife is the most striking, though not the most useful