Hernia, strangulated and reducible : with cure by subcutaneous injections, together with sugcested [sic] and improved methods for kelotomy : also an appendix giving a short account of various new surgical instruments / by Joseph H. Warren.

  • Warren, Joseph H.
Date:
1881
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Credit: Hernia, strangulated and reducible : with cure by subcutaneous injections, together with sugcested [sic] and improved methods for kelotomy : also an appendix giving a short account of various new surgical instruments / by Joseph H. Warren. 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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    HEKNIA. INTEODUCTIOK In presenting to the profession this operation for the cure of Hernia by injection, I am well aware that I shall meet with some rebuffs and prejudice. This has always been the history of every new or important surgical operation; and in some aspects it is well that it is as it is. We have only to recall the history of ovariotomy to substantiate this statement most fully. AVhen McDowell performed his first successful operation he was looked upon by the profession as rash and inconsiderate in the extreme to propose such a preposterous idea as the removal of the ovaries. If we refer to the earlier operators and writers on ophthalmology, we find that no suggestion for the removal of cataract was well received at first, and that it has been on]y by perseverance and success, obtained by a conscious honesty and sincerity that the operation was all that was claimed for it, that every similar improvement in surgical art has been attained. The same can be said of the operation of removing stones from the bladder, of which Sir Henry Thompson has be- come a world renowned authority. If such has been the history of our art, how can any one hope to present to notice anything new and not expect to run the gauntlet of professional criticism and opposition ? It is in full knowledge of all these prejudices and B