Surgery / by C.W. Mansell Moullin.

  • Mansell-Moullin, C. W. (Charles William), 1851-1940
Date:
1891
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Surgery / by C.W. Mansell Moullin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE MoDEBN Surgery has advanced with such rapid strides, and in so many different directions, that it is ahnost impossible, within the space of a single volume, to give more than an epitome of its main prin- ciples. I have therefore touched hut lightly upon controversial matters, and have endeavoured to make this book a practical one, in the hope that it may be of greater service to students and general practitioners. With this object, I have given special attention to the question of Treatment; and I have included under the heading of each organ a brief description of the malformations to which it is liable, and the various operations that may be performed upon it, instead of relegating them to chapters by themselves. The General Pathology of Surgical Diseases is dealt with in Part I.; that of Injuries in Part II. In Part III. the Diseases and Injuries of Special Structures and Organs are considered more fully. Throughout, I have endeavoured to enforce the idea that the chief aim and object of Surgery at the present day is, to assist the tissues in every possible way in their struggle against disease. Through the kindness of the publishers, I have been enabled to make use of many illustrations from Bryant's ' Practice of Surgery,' Fergusson's ' Surgery,' and Astley Cooper's work on ' Fractures and Dislocations.' I am indebted to the Clinical Society and to Mr. MoRRANT Baker for figs. 233 and 234, illustrating Charcot's
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