General surgical pathology and therapeutics, in fifty lectures : a textbook for students and physicians / by Theodor Billroth ; translated from the fourth German ed., with the special permission of the author, and rev. from the sixth ed., by Charles E. Hackley.

  • Theodor Billroth
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1874
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Credit: General surgical pathology and therapeutics, in fifty lectures : a textbook for students and physicians / by Theodor Billroth ; translated from the fourth German ed., with the special permission of the author, and rev. from the sixth ed., by Charles E. Hackley. 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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    TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. Dueestg the past ten years the microscope lias greatly ad- vanced our knowledge of Pathology; and it will perhaps be acknowledged that most progress in the study of Pathological Anatomy has been made in Germany. Prof. Theodor Billroth, himself one of the most noted au- thorities on Surgical Pathology, has in the present volume given us a complete resume of the existing state of knowledge in this branch of medical science. The book might perhaps have been entitled Principles of Surgery, but this would hardly have indicated the specific man- ner in which these principles have been inculcated. Most of the views found in these lectures have been floating through the journals for several years past; but, so far as the translator knows, they are not so fully presented in any book in the English language. The only work in our language on the subject was published many years ago; even the late editions are but little changed from the first; moreover, the two works are, in most respects, entirely unlike. The fact of this publication going through four editions in Germany, and having been translated into French, Italian, Rus- sian, and Hungarian, should be some guarantee for its standing. Some few notes that have been inserted by the translator will be found enclosed in brackets [ ]. 47 West Thirty-first Street, New York, December 1, 1870.
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