A Manual of the Practice of Surgery (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Manual of the Practice of Surgery IN preparing the third edition of my Manual of Surgery I have gone carefully through the text, revising it, and endeavouring to bring it up to the level of the present day. At the same time, the number of illustrations has been considerably increased, the Formulary has been enlarged, and many more references to it have been introduced into the text. The general arrangement and the classification of disease which have been adopted will be seen at a glance by reference to the Table of Contents. Those branches of Surgery which have undergone such rapid development of late years as to have become almost separate sciences - such, for example, as the Surgery of the Eye and of the Ear - I have considered only so far as a knowledge of them is essential to every practitioner. Each of these branches has called forth a special literature of its own, and to this I must refer those who desire fuller information upon these subjects. Ever since I was a student it has been my habit to make drawings of any cases of more than usual interest which came before me, and many of the illustrations which will be found in the following pages have been copied from sketches in my own portfolio. Some of the others have been taken from preparations in the Museum of Charing Cross Hospital, which were kindly placed at my service by the Medical Committee. 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.