A Text-Book on Surgery: General, Operative, and Mechanical (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

John A. Wyeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330332539 ISBN 13: 9781330332535

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2019

Synopsis

Excerpt from A Text-Book on Surgery: General, Operative, and Mechanical

In an age when books upon 'this subject are plentiful, this work was undertaken not without misgivings, yet with a determination to lure nothing undone which would add to its usefulness and make it u exponent of modern and progressive surgery. Such rapid advances we being made, that marvelous results are today achieved by meas urea Mom to the profession but a few months earlier. The intro duction of comm Icydxrocklomtc as a local anaesthetic marks an epoch in mrgial practice; and yet this wonderful agent has scarcely been mentioned in works on awry. Again, the antiseptic method of heating wounds, originated within the last few years, has brought With it such protection to life and usefulness, that it deserves a more amongh consideration than is often allotted it by surgical writers, and should be universally accepted and practiced.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1330332539
• ISBN 13: 9781330332535
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 800