The principles and practice of modern surgery / by Robert Druitt.
- Robert Druitt
- Date:
- 1848
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The principles and practice of modern surgery / by Robert Druitt. 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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![The speedy demand for a new edition of this work is suffi- cient evidence of the high estimation in which it is held by the profession of this country. The previous editions were passed through the press under the editorial supervision of Dr. Flint, of Louisville, Ky. The distance of his residence, how- ever, from the point of publication, has induced him to decline the revision of the present reprint, on account of the close superintendence demanded by the numerous additions of text and illustration, now introduced by the author. Under these circumstances, I have been invited to assume the editorship of the work. The labour and learning of the author have rendered my duties necessarily light, and I have, in a great measure, con- fined myself to adding such of the results of the skill and in- dustry of American surgeons as appeared to me most worthy of mention. These additions will be found enclosed in [ ] brackets. The text and general arrangement of the author have not been altered, while his illustrations have all been repro- duced, except in one or two instances in which an ad-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21049737_0017.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
