Author : Samuel Cooper
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780266363040
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (63 download)
Book Synopsis The First Lines of the Practice of Surgery, Vol. 1 of 2 by : Samuel Cooper
Download or read book The First Lines of the Practice of Surgery, Vol. 1 of 2 written by Samuel Cooper and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The First Lines of the Practice of Surgery, Vol. 1 of 2: Designed as an Introduction for Students, and a Concise Book of Reference for Practitioners Truth, that there is more real merit in removing the necessi ty for the practice of any one severe operation already fa miliarly adopted, than in the invention and performance of a hundred new ones. Let not the young surgeon be led to amputate the jaw for a disorder with which it is often at tacked, and which is well known by the name of necrosis. I believe, that no simple necrosis of it, unattended with a fungous or medullary tumor originating within the bone it self, can ever be an instance in which amputation of the lower jaw is justifiable. Very large exfoliations take place of themselves; new bone is produced, as a substitute for what is lost; the swelling, thickening, and ulcerated state of the soft parts, all disappear; and, in the end, the patient recovers without deformity, and without the agony and dan ger of an Operation, frequently long and severe, and always more or less mutilating. These observations seemed to me proper, as a caution that might usefully accompany this edi tion, in which a newish Operation, attended with all its usual attractions, good and bad, is submitted to the notice of the profession. At the same time, I particularly request the reader to observe, that, in the chapter on this subject, the kinds of disease, for which the Operation was deemed indis pensably necessary, by surgeons of great eminence and judgment, are faithfully described. 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.
