A Treatise On Foreign Bodies In Surgical Practice

Author : Alfred Poulet
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ISBN 13 : 9781330513880
Total Pages : 286 pages
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Download or read book A Treatise on Foreign Bodies in Surgical Practice, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) written by Alfred Poulet and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Treatise on Foreign Bodies in Surgical Practice, Vol. 1 No surgeon has hitherto thought of collecting in one book all the material which is scattered throughout the annals of science concerning the question of foreign bodies. However, there are few subjects which are more worthy of attracting the serious attention cf practitioners. All those who have been brought in contact, in the course of their practice, with the numberless difficulties produced by the presence of foreign bodies, know how uncertain the diagnosis often is, how sudden are the symptoms, and how often the treatment requires skill, address, and varied and extensive learning. The treatises and journals are also, in some sort, encumbered by the interesting cases which have accumulated for centuries, although no one has drawn practical deductions from them, or has rendered them useful in surgery. The pathology of foreign bodies has, undoubtedly, not arrived at that stage of perfection toward which the efforts of lovers of our art tend. But is it not worth our while to endeavor to collect all these materials in one work, to make a synthesis of the notions which have been slowly acquired, and to place landmarks in the path of progress? Fortified by the experience of past generations, I have, therefore, undertaken a work which has no analogue in one classical literature. Apart from a few more or less complete monographs, and from a few useful, general ideas, we possess no important guide, and experience teaches that the concise precepts of our classical works are frequently insufficient to endow the surgeon with the boldness and positiveness demanded in the treatment of foreign bodies. Take a student who has passed through all the medical grades, and is on the eve of entering civil or military service: place him in the presence of even the simplest cases of foreign bodies - a small stone or a pea in the ear, a metallic splinter in the cornea, or a catheter broken in the urethra - and the anxiety and embarrassment which he manifests will show how insufficient is his surgical knowledge at this point. 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.