Abstracts Of War Surgery

Excerpt from Abstracts of War Surgery: An Abstract of the War Literature of General Surgery That Has Been Published Since the Declaration of War in 1914 The preparation of these abstracts, in common with many of the other early war activities, was an emergency war measure. Much of the excellent surgical work which had developed as a result of French, English and Italian effort had to be appropriated by our medical personnel at a time least favorable for quiet mental effort. To meet the needs of the situation, the Division of General Surgery of the Surgeon Generals Office prepared, collected and arranged abstracts of the important general surgical papers bearing on war surgery; and, after having them mimeographed, distributed one hundred of them to various surgical instructors in the Army Surgical Schools, and to the surgical chiefs of the war hospitals. This limited issue of one hundred so far failed to meet the demand that we have acceded to the request for a wider distribution in printed form. The volume must of necessity be regarded merely as a condensed text for ready reference. Most of the abstracts have been used through the courtesy of Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Medical Record, the Military Surgeon, and the New York Medical Journal. Some articles in the British Medical Journal and in Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics were so fundamental that they were abstracted with a minimal amount of paraphrase. To all these journals and to any others that through inadvertence may not have been mentioned, we express the sincere thanks of the Surgeon General. 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.

Excerpt from Abstracts of War Surgery: An Abstract of the War Literature of General Surgery That Has Been Published Since the Declaration of War in 1914 Wound Infections: Some New Methods for the Study of the Various Factors Which Come Into Consideration in Their Treatment. A. 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.

This is a curated and comprehensive collection of the most important works covering matters related to national security, diplomacy, defense, war, strategy, and tactics. The collection spans centuries of thought and experience, and includes the latest analysis of international threats, both conventional and asymmetric. It also includes riveting first person accounts of historic battles and wars.Some of the books in this Series are reproductions of historical works preserved by some of the leading libraries in the world. As with any reproduction of a historical artifact, some of these books contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. We believe these books are essential to this collection and the study of war, and have therefore brought them back into print, despite these imperfections.We hope you enjoy the unmatched breadth and depth of this collection, from the historical to the just-published works.

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Excerpt from War Surgery of the Nervous System, 1917: A Digest of the Important Medical Journals and Books Published During the European War This manual represents an attempt to collect, digest, and arrange in orderly form, the literature of war surgery of the skull, brain, spine, spinal cord, meninges, and peripheral nerves, from August, 1914, to August, 1017. The sources of supply were the English, German, and French weekly, monthly, and quarterly medical journals, and those foreign treatises dealing with war surgery as practiced and observed during the present conflict. The scheme adopted has been based largely on the plan of the collective abstract. It was thought wise to furnish fairly full abstracts, in order both to avoid unwarrantable dogmatism, and also in order to allow the reader free scope of personal interpretation. For this latter reason also, the editor has refrained both from extended critique and from attempting generalized conclusions, by way of summary. No abstracts on the subject of Roentgenology have been furnished for the reason that special schools are equipping men for this work. The following are satisfactory references: A.G. Straw, Arch. of Radiol, and Electrother, May, 19 T, p. 393; W.Oram, Arch. of Radiol, and Electrother, February, 1917, p.277; H.E. Gamlem, Arch. of Radiol. and Electrother, November.1916, p.175; Gage, Arch. of Radiol, and Electrother, June, 1917, p.1; E. Skinner, Amer. Jour. Roent. , June, 1917, p.350; George H. Makins, Brit. Jour, of Surg., June 16, 1917, p.803. Since the war hospitals may not be well supplied with books, we have introduced the abstracts with selections from standard textbooks, so that the reader of the manual might be always in close touch with fundamentals. For the brain, we have used the chapters from Keens Surgery written by Dr. Harvey Cushing, and chapters from; Dr. Isaac H. Jones's forthcoming book on Equilibrium and Vertigo. For the spine we have used selected chapters from Dr. C.A. Elsberg's book on Diseases of the Spinal Cord and its Membranes, and Dr. Charles H. Frazier's volume (in press) on Surgery of the Spine, and for peripheral nerves we have selected the chapter on peripheral nerves, written by Dr. Gordon M. Holmes for Osler's Modern Medicine. The use of the phrase "war surgery" must be taken with a good deal of qualification, lest one fall into the error of thinking of this type of work as separate and distinct from the surgery of civil life. 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.