Minor Surgery Or Hints On The Every Day Duties Of The Surgeon

Excerpt from Minor Surgery: Or Hints on the Every-Day Duties of the Surgeon The daily duties required of the surgeon, call for such varied qualifications, both in his natural tem perament and that acquired by education, that com paratively few of the great mass of medical men, are fitted for their performance, or have any inclination to undertake them. All practitioners are, however, Often compelled by circumstances to resort to means that are as purely operative, as those necessitating the extensive use of the knife, and Surgery has, there fc', e, since a very early period, been divided into Minor and Major Surgery, or parts purely operative or otherwise; the various works written on the subject, having thus divided their matter, in order to treat it the more systematically. But as these terms are purely conventional, there has been much difference of Opinion, as to what constituted the boundaries of each, and some writers have in consequence, so min gled the two, as to render it difficult to know where to draw the line. 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.

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