A guide to the aseptic treatment of wounds / by C. Schimmelbusch ; preface by E. von Bergmann ; tr. from the 2nd rev. German ed., with express permission of the author, by Frank J. Thornbury ; with 43 illustrations.

  • Schimmelbusch, Curt, 1860-1895.
Date:
1895
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Credit: A guide to the aseptic treatment of wounds / by C. Schimmelbusch ; preface by E. von Bergmann ; tr. from the 2nd rev. German ed., with express permission of the author, by Frank J. Thornbury ; with 43 illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    TREATMENT. CHAPTER I. THE IMPORTANCE OF ASEPTIC WOUND TREATMENT. Uncertainty of the Former Results in Operations—Certainty of the Present as Regards Wound Repair—The Short Duration of Repair—We no longer Fear a Special Diathesis in Wound Inflammation, nor the Age of the Patient—We Open the Abdomen and Cranium without Hesita- tion—Knowledge of the Agents of Wound Infection—Lister. It is appropriate for one who is reaping the benefits of great achievements, and taking them as a matter of course, and who, notwithstanding, may ha-s^e doubts as to the practical good of new methods, to review the past and contrast it with the present. It will not be necessary to go back to the period in which the want of anatomical and physiological knowledge, as well as imperfection in technique, restricted the accomplish- ments of surgery; the time does not extend over more than three or four transpired decades. He compares with the new era only such departments of our science as were common to our most progressive representatives with whom advances in the methods of operating reached so high a standard as to leave but little remaining to be done, but all of which was vitiated and all results placed in question through a mysterious and incomprehensible destiny which hovered over the injured