The Surgeon S Vade Mecum

The Surgeon's Vade-Mecum is a historical medical text that provides a guide to the practice of surgery in the 19th century. It covers a range of topics such as surgical techniques, anatomy, and the use of surgical instruments. The author, Robert Druitt, was a prominent surgeon in London and wrote several medical texts throughout his career. The Surgeon's Vade-Mecum is a valuable resource for medical historians, surgeons, and medical students. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Excerpt from The Surgeon's Vade Mecum: A Manual of Modern Surgery It would scarcely be possible, in the limits of a preface, for me to make due acknowledgment to the numerous kind friends in various parts of the world - I may truly say from China to Peru - who in various ways have assisted me in my labours, by many a friendly suggestion and word of encou ragement. But I cannot omit to mention Professors Partridge and Fergusson, Mr. Henry Lee, Dr. Beale, and the other medical Professors of King's College, a school to which my early associations and subsequent familiarity bind me with ties of especial regard. To Mr. Coulson and his colleagues at St. Mary's Hospital; to Mr. Haynes Walton, Mr. Harvey, Dr. Tanner, and Mr. Henry Smith, my pages will show that I am in many ways obliged for valuable information; although they cannot show adequately the personal kindness for which I am still their debtor. 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 Druitt's Surgeon's Vade-Mecum: A Manual of Modern Surgery F aw medical works have been more widely known and appreciated than Dmitt' Surgeons Vade-mecum. In England, I am informed that copies have been sold, whilst in America it has been so highly appreciated that a copy was issued by the Government to each surgeon serv ing in the Federal Army during the great Civil War. These facts would at once suggest that it was desirable to alter the book as little as possible. But owing to Dr. Druitt's ill-health he was unable to edit the last two editions with his old skill and energy; in'the last, indeed, he was obliged to share the labor with Professor John Wood, of King's College Hospital, and.\ I r. R. W. Parker. The latter surgeon illustrated and revised the chapter on Tumors, and gave much help in the portions dealing with gun shot injuries. His work has been but little altered. Mr. Wood revised the latter two-thirds of the book - a somewhat delicate task during the life of the author - and he seems to have limited himself to making consider able additions, in which he stated his own views and practice. Naturally, these additions contained very valuable material, and I have retained them, with acknowledgment of their source when they contained anything orig inating with Professor Wood. It will be seen from the above that the work has not been thoroughly edited for at least ten years; and when I say that in the eleventh edition, which appeared in 1877, antiseptic surgery is regarded as still on its trial, ligatures are left hanging from wounds, the extra-peritoneal method is re commended in ovariotomy, and we are told to hang a box of Macdougall's powder under the bedclothes to keep down the stench of a stump, it will be obvious to any who understand the far-reaching importance of these points that radical change was necessary. Again and again I tried to patch, but with such a poor result that the attempt invariably resulted in rewriting. The twelfth edition consequently differs much from the eleventh: scarcely a paragraph of the latter remains unaltered; and in most parts only the sense of the old book has been embodied with other material in the new. 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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