Modern surgical therapeutics : a compendium of current formulæ, approved dressings and specific methods for the treatment of surgical diseases and injuries / by George H. Napheys.

  • Napheys, George H. (George Henry), 1842-1876.
Date:
1881
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Credit: Modern surgical therapeutics : a compendium of current formulæ, approved dressings and specific methods for the treatment of surgical diseases and injuries / by George H. Napheys. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    EDITOR'S PREFACE. (to the fifth edition.) In presenting this volume to the public, the editor believes that he can justly claim for it that it fills a place in medical literature now entirely unoccupied. Its chief purpose is to set forth the medical aspects of Surgery. While there are abundant treatises on Operative, Mechanical and Minor Surgery, there is none which aims to collect in one book the Therapeutics of Surgery in the stricter sense of the word, to gather the formulae of the most distinguished surgeons, to systematize their thera- peutical directions, and to set forth their specific treatment of surgical diseases and injuries. This was the aim of the talented author of the present work, who, however, was called from his labors before he had completed them. The jundertaking has been carried out in the spirit, and to a great ex- tent upon the plan, which he had projected. In this the editor has received aid from several professional gentlemen more intimately con- versant than himself with surgical specialties; to them he returns his earnest thanks. Through their assistance he can confidently promise that the work represents the most recent practice and most modern teachings of the leaders of surgery of the present day of all countries. The book is not altogether a compilation from printed sources. It has, indeed, been the object of the editor to collate from monographs, articles in journals and systematic treatises the published matter per- taining to the subject; but he has also obtained, in various instances, from private sources and unpublished material the practice of a num- ber of eminent teachers and practitioners; the Resumes are the result of a careful collation of many authorities; and the labor of selection