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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![gentlemen liavc noticed, and the autlior is sufficiently sanguine to entertain the idea, that his work may, in some degree, assume that relative position in British Surgery, which the classical volumes of Vcl])eau and Malgaigne occu])y on the Continent. It is hoped that the present edition will maintain a popu- larity equal to that of its predecessor. Considerable additions have been made, and advantage has been taken of the sugges- tions of the reviewers to alter and amend whatever seemed faulty or defective. Tlicrc will yet appear, however, much wanting towards perfection, especially in the estimation of those who look for something ])ertaining to all surgery under the title of “ System.” The author holds the opinion that a complete “ System of Surgery” should embrace all branches of professional know- ledge ; each department has its separate authors and teachers, and it has been his aim, in accordance with these views, to confine himself to that of “ Practical Surgery.” ^V'ith many imperfections of which he is himself conscious, and probably many more which have been overlooked, he ventures to hope that the good, if any, may be put against the bad, and that the result will be, that he has contributed, in some mea- sure, to the advancement of a j>rofession to which he has been devotedly attached for more than twenty years. The illustrations will, doubtless, in every re.spcct sustain the high character which the IMessrs. Bagg have already se- cured for their beautiful and useful art. For most of the de- signs the author is himself responsible, and for others he has been indebted to the diagrams left, for the use of the chair](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22027609_0012.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
