Surgical diseases of infants and children / by P. Guersant ; translated from the French by Richard J. Dunglison.

  • Q55900845
Date:
1873
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Credit: Surgical diseases of infants and children / by P. Guersant ; translated from the French by Richard J. Dunglison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ' LEEDS ckWEST-RIDING MEDICO-CHIRURCICAL SOCIETY PHEEACC My object in publishing these notes on the surgical diseases observed in children has not been to embrace the entire domain of infantile surgery. I have wished only to sum up my views on cases which I have most frequently met with, and which particu- larly served as subjects for my clinical lectures at the Hopital des Enfants from 1840 to 1860. I have wished to make known the results of my practice, and. to point out both my successes and my reverses. If I have omitted several points, it is because I have hesitated to speak of very rare malformations, which I have scarcely ever met with, or of diseases which are very rarely ob- served in children, as aneurisms of the arteries, varix, or varico- cele, of which I have seen but one example operated upon with success by the plan of M. Ricord. The same may be said of congenital luxations, which I have seldom seen, except luxation of the coxo-femoral articulation, that of the superior extremity of the radius, and of the clavicle, and a few others that I have scarcely been able to observe sufficiently. I have rather preferred not to speak of those subjects on which I could not base very practical opinions; and I have limited myself