A text-book on surgery : general, operative, and mechanical / by John A. Wyeth.

  • Wyeth, John A. (John Allan), 1845-1922.
Date:
1898
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Credit: A text-book on surgery : general, operative, and mechanical / by John A. Wyeth. 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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    In revising this work scarcely a chapter remains untouched. While some are not materially altered, others are practically re- written. In the chapter on Inflammation is embodied the latest accepted ideas of surgical septicaemia. The article on the Eye is new, and, in addition to the surgery of this organ, includes the study of Refraction, and the application of glasses in correcting errors in the visual apparatus. The most recent and approved methods of dealing with lesions of the abdominal viscera—viz., intestinal anasto- mosis, exsection of a portion of the alimentary canal, procedures for the radical cure of hernia?, cholecystotomy, etc.—have been added to the text. A new chapter on the Surgery of the Genito-Urinary Organs of Females is inserted. Supra-pubic cystotomy for stone or tumor of the bladder is given a prominence not hitherto accorded so valuable a procedure; and scarcely less useful are the jjlastic operations for the cure of urinary fistula?. In the department of Diseases of the Rectum and Anus the latest methods of surgical interference are considered. The author acknowledges gratefully the assistance received from his friends, Prof. David Webster, in the article on Refraction, and Dr. W. W. Van Arsdale, who is wholly responsible for the greatly improved index. The drawings for many of the new cuts were done by Dr. Henry Macdonald, of ]STew York city, whose thorough work is well attested. The Author.