A system of practical surgery / By William Fergusson ; with illustrations by Bagg.
- William Fergusson
- Date:
- 1846
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A system of practical surgery / By William Fergusson ; with illustrations by Bagg. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Tlie mode of investigating the Surgieal Anatomy of caeli part will, it is presumed, be of value to those who may wish to refresh their knowledge ;—elementary details have, in general, been omitted, and the deseriptions have been arranged more with a view to eneourage ocular inspection than to facilitate the prevalent, baneful, and schoolboy system of acquiring names from printed lessons,—a kind of knowledge which is totally worthless to the I’raetical Surgeon ; no s])ccial atten- tion luis been given to that laboured style of eertain treatises on surgical anatomy, which, in describing minute divisions and subdivisions of regions has, it is feared, induced the Stu- dent to su])pose that these imaginary, or, at best, artificial lines, arc of equal importance with the relative position and appearance of the organs and textures themselves. In the arrangement and progress of the work it was found that unless such a section as that which has been named “ The Elements of Practical Surgery” were given, there would be a series of repetitions elsewhere, which could not have been avoided. The section in question is, like the others, devoted almost exclusively to practical details, and the author wishes that it shall be taken in this light alone by the Stu- dent and all wdio may look into these i)agcs,—for, strictly speaking, the true elements of Practical Surgery are to be found chiefly in a complete system of education. Each subject has been treated according to the author’s estimation of its utility and importance, an estimation founded partly on his own education, j)artly on the writings of othcis, but more particularly on his experience among pupils, among surgeons of his own age, and among his seniors in the pro- fession ; and he has assumed that his personal opportunities](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22027609_0010.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
