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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![have been .such a.s to entitle liim, on all fitting occasions, to illustrate his precepts by his own practice, although he must here express a hope, that in the following pages he will not be found deficient in respect for the ojnnions of others. The limited extent of the work has necessarily prevented notice being taken of many subjects which arc of interest to the Practical Surgeon, and also of those historical details which .some might desire. ^V■hile the author cannot bnt regret the omissions, he trusts that, in some degree, they will be compen- sated for in other respects, and that few of his renders mil lie without that admirable emporium of surgical lore, “Cooper’s Surgical Dictionary,” or the “Cyclo])aMlia of Practical Surgery,” as far as it has gone, in which tliey will find all that may be desired on such topics. llie present work has not been produced to compete with any already before the profe.ssion,— the arrangement, the man- ner in which the .subjects have been treated, and the illustra- tions, are all difi'erent from any of the kind in the Knglish lan- guage. It is not intended to be placed in com]>nrison with the elementary systems of Mr. Samuel Cooper, Mr. John Bums, .Mr. Li ston, j\lr. Syme, ^Ir. I.izars, and that excellent ejiitome by Mr. Druitt. It may with more propriety be likened to the “ Operative Surgery” of Sir Charles Bell and that of Mr. Ave- rill — both excellent in their day, or the more modem jiroduc- tions of i\Ir. Hargrave, and the “Practical Surgery” of Mr. Liston, which are so well known, and so justly apjircciated, that no praise of the author of the following pages can possibly add to the estimation in which they are held. There arc sub- jects treated of in this volume, however, which none of these](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22027609_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
