A Manual of Minor Surgery and Bandaging for the Use of House-Surgeons, Dressers, and Junior Practitioners (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Manual of Minor Surgery and Bandaging for the Use of House-Surgeons, Dressers, and Junior Practitioners The relation of the house-surgeon to the visiting surgeon varies also in different institutions, and with different individuals. Some visiting-surgeons wish to do everything themselves, and are very wroth if a house surgeon has opened an abscess or tightened a bandage; while others allow their subordinates considerable liberty, provided the patients suffer no harm. Here, again, tradi tion and observation during student-life will enable the house-surgeon to keep clear of all collision with his superior officers and he is certainly bound to respect the reasonable prejudices of each surgeon with regard to the details of his practice, and not to attempt to bring the practices of two or three individual surgeons to one uniform level, by which all possibility of comparison would be lost. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.