Lectures on the operations of surgery : and on diseases and accidents requiring operations / by Robert Liston ; with numerous additions by Thomas D. Mütter.

  • Robert Liston
Date:
1846
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Credit: Lectures on the operations of surgery : and on diseases and accidents requiring operations / by Robert Liston ; with numerous additions by Thomas D. Mütter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. In presenting to the profession in this country these lectures of Mr. Liston, I feel fully assured that no apology is necessary; like everything emanating from that excel- lent surgeon, they teem with practical and judicious advice, and their perusal will amply repay even the veterans of our art. It will be observed that this volume contains all the lectures published up to the present date, but does not con- clude the course. It is simply a collection of much valuable matter, delivered in 1844 at the University College, Lon- don, and furnished the profession through the pages of the London Lancet. It must prove a most valuable addition to the other works of Mr. Liston, republished in this coun- try, and which should be in the hands of every surgeon. The additional matter furnished by the editor is included within brackets [ ], and amounts to near two hundred and fifty pages, a much larger quantity than he at first expected to add, but he trusts it may not be without its advantages as illustrating some points of surgery but slightly or not at all referred to by the author. Another volume will be issued hereafter, should the publication of the lectures be continued. THOMAS D. MUTTER, 244 Walnut Street. January, 1846.