Practical System Of Surgery

Author : Sir William Fergusson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330316184
Total Pages : 809 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book A System of Practical Surgery written by Sir William Fergusson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 809 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A System of Practical Surgery It has been the object throughout the whole of this work to produce a volume of the details of Practical Surgery, which shall, in some degree, meet the wishes and wants of the Student, as well as the Surgeon already engaged in practice. All hypothetical doctrines have been avoided as much as possible, and alluded to only when they have afforded palpable illustration of certain methods of practice. The prevailing custom of interspersing surgical works with Physiology has been dispensed with as much as circumstances would permit, chiefly on the ground that this subject, besides being too comprehensive to be treated in such a manner, forms only a part of that extended education on which a Scientific knowledge of Surgery can alone be based. For the same reasons, too, the sciences of Chemistry, Pharmacy, Materia Medica, and others, which are included in the curriculum of medical study, have scarcely been referred to; not because they are irrelevant to the Practice of Surgery, but because each, in a manner, forms a separate department of that system of instruction which belongs alike to the Physician and the Surgeon, and which every properly qualified medical man must have pursued ere he becomes a recognised practitioner. In the arrangement and progress of the work it was found that unless such a section as that which has been named "The Elements of Practical Surgery" were given, there would be a series of repetitions elsewhere, which could not have been avoided. The section in question is, like the others, devoted almost exclusively to practical details, and the Author wishes that it shall be taken in this light alone by the Student and all who may look into these pages,- for, strictly speaking, the true elements of Practical Surgery are to be found chiefly in a complete system of education. 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.