Causes of post-operative complications and early voluntary muscular movements with avoidance of the usual confinement to bed as a means of combating them / by Waters F. Burrows.
- Burrows, Waters F. (Waters Field), 1879-
- Date:
- [1911?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Causes of post-operative complications and early voluntary muscular movements with avoidance of the usual confinement to bed as a means of combating them / by Waters F. Burrows. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![{Reprinted from NEW YORK STATE JOURNAL OF MEDICINE, December, 1911. ] CAUSES OF POST-OPERATIVE COM- PLICATIONS AND EARLY VOLUN- TARY MUSCULAR MOVEMENTS WITH AVOIDANCE OF THE USUAL CONFINEMENT TO BED AS A MEANS OF COMBATING THEM.* By WATERS F. BURROWS, M.D., NEW YORK CITY. HE customs necessitated by operative procedures in days preceding aseptic sur- gery and carried out by the pioneers in early modern surgical work still have a marked influence in many spheres upon the operator. Not only is conservatism in progress the rule among us but through lack of proper facilities for experimentation and time for thoughtful consideration of the ever broadening and rapidly changing problems in our profession, many there are who have found it advisable to continue with methods that have stood the test of time even though they have had dis- agreeable sequelze with perchance an accom- panying though small mortality. It may be that such mishaps have been deemed as never entirely avoidable but such a state of mind readily leads to a condition of self satisfaction * Read before the Middlesex County Medical Society of New Jersey, October 18, tort. I “7 e Fd](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33453615_0003.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
