Surgical diseases of children : a modern treatise on pediatric surgery / by Samuel W. Kelley.

  • Samuel Walter Kelley
Date:
1914
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    mosis and paraphimosis, diseases of the joints, burns and scalds, spina bifida, and other surgical topics, but he advised and described the surgical treatment which experience or the literature up to his time had taught him. He also treated of diseases of the eyes and of the skin quite extensively. But Coley's book seems to have attracted little attention, J. Forsyth Meigs, writing in 1848, presents nothing surgical, although his work more nearly equaled the quality of those on gen- eral medicine than had any upon diseases of children up to that time. Nor can the lectures of Charles West, the most admirable clinician and oft-quoted writer of his time, be said to deal with both sides of his subject. In Churchill (1850), a few topics, as tracheotomy, paracen- tesis for pleurisy, hare-lip, cleft palate, imperforate anus, and spina bifida, receive some surgical handling. Condie does not consider that surgical subjects fall within the scope of his treatise. But by this time the knowledge of anatomy, of physiology, of pathology, and of the history of diseases and injuries had increased to such an extent, the observations of practical surgeons had so accumulated, and the establishment of hospitals for children had so improved the facilities for the study of their diseases that their peculiarities and their importance could no longer be quite ignored by the profession. About the year 1850, in Paris, while Trousseau taught the diseases of children, the surgical side was taught by Giraldes, who, however, published little in permanent form until later. In 1855, J. C. Forster, in London, had been making A few remarks on the surgical diseases of children, arid in i860 his 8vo volume was published. It was also in the year i860 that A. A. W. Johnson delivered, at the Hospital for Sick Children, a course of Lectures on the Surgery of Childhood. In 1863 we find that the Council of the Medical Society of Lon- don, recognizing the importance of this subject, have been led to believe that the interests of its members might be promoted and the profession benefited by having their attention drawn from the broad field of general medicine and surgery to the comparatively small one of the diseases of children, and on the strength of this belief have, abandoning the custom by which they have been hitherto bound, defined the subjects for the Lettsomian lectures, and they nominated as lecturer, Mr. Thomas Bryant, who delivered three admirable lectures on the surgical diseases of children. M. Giraldes, in Paris, had been followed as the leading teacher, by Guersant, whose Notices sur la Chirurgie des Enfants, a series of very pointed and practical papers, found their way into an English translation for publication about the same time.
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