An American text-book of gynecology, medical and surgical : for practitioners and students / By Henry T. Byford, M. D., Edwin B. Cragin, M. D. ... [and others] Ed. by J. M. Baldy.

  • Baldy, J. M. (John Montgomery), 1860-1934.
Date:
1899
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Credit: An American text-book of gynecology, medical and surgical : for practitioners and students / By Henry T. Byford, M. D., Edwin B. Cragin, M. D. ... [and others] Ed. by J. M. Baldy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    PREFACE. The rapid and progressive advances in the science and art of Gynecology during the past dozen years have created an almost constant necessity for the revision of works on this sub- ject.. For this reason, and for the purpose of presenting gyne- cological surgery and treatment as it is practised in America, the country of its birth and of its most substantial improvements and progress, the present text-book has been prepared by Amer- ican 'authors, all of whom are teachers of this branch of surgery in the leading medical schools and hospitals. It is thoroughly practical in its teachings, and is intended, as its title implies, to be a working text-book for physicians and students. Many of the most important subjects are considered from an entirely new standpoint, and are grouped together in a manner some- what foreign to the accepted custom. Several new chapters have been added, such as Technique and After-treatment, it being hoped that by this presentation of the subject the student might the more readily be aided in an intelligent understanding of their details. Illustrations have been depended upon in great measure to demonstrate and explain the anatomy of the parts considered—a method of dealing with the subject which has relieved the text of much irrelevant and cumbersome matter. The work embodies as nearly as possible the combined opinions of all the authors, although it is to be understood that each indi- vidual author must be free from absolute responsibility for any particular statement: especially is this so for the reason that the Editor has endeavored by adding to and subtracting from the text to render it as uniform in its statements as possible.