Practical surgery / by Robert Liston.

  • Liston, Robert, 1794-1847.
Date:
1842
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Practical surgery / by Robert Liston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. The following work on Practical Surgery was planned in the spring of the present year, and executed during the summer months, in those hours which the author could snatch from his professional engagements in public and private. The aim throughout has been to produce a work which should be useful to the students of surgery and young practitioners,— exhibiting a plain common-sense view of the most important injuries and diseases which are met with in practice, unencum- bered by speculations or theories, and accompanied by simple directions how to conduct the treatment. The good intentions of the author must be placed against the imperfect execution of the task. If the arrangement of the work, as may be expected from the above announcement, be defective in some respects, the same cannot be said of the illustrations, which have all been planned, drawn, and engraved in the same short period. These are the joint production of the Messrs. Bagg. It is hoped that the beauty of the designs, and the correctness of their execution, may put the reader in good humour, and in some degree avert his displeasure, if he think there be reason to indulge therein. The author cannot find terms strong enough to express the sense he entertains of the services he has received from Mr. Bagg, jun.; as also from Mr. W. J. Erasmus Wilson, whose 1*