A text-book of minor surgery.

  • Foote, Edward Milton, 1866-
Date:
1914
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Credit: A text-book of minor surgery. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    Yanderbilt Clinic, with an average annua] attendance of about four thousand new patients. Besides this I have enjoyed the advantages which come from teaching both minor surgery and general surgery in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and from surgical at- tendance in the Randall's Island Hospitals, the New York City Hos- pital, and the New York Polyclinic Hospital. I have striven to present in compact form the results of this ex- perienee and the best that has been written in hooks, magazines, and journals, taking with free hand from every available source. A mere list of the articles consulted would lill several pages. Very few au- thors' names are mentioned because such simple procedures as are herein described must often suggest themselves to many minds. We all owe so much to our predecessors. The aim has been to illustrate by .photographs as far as possible. Too often medical illustrations show what might be, rather than what is; for the difficulties of making clinical photographs sufficiently clear for good reproduction are tremendous. Mr. H. C. Lehmann has aided me very much in this part of the work, and has also fur- nished all of the drawings. My thanks are also due to Dr. E. J. McKenzie for many good photographs made while he was a student in my clinic; and to Mr. B. F. Puffer, who took for me the photo- graphs to illustrate the chapter on bandaging. Edward Milton Foote. 135 West Forty-eighth Street, New York.