Surgical experiences : the substance of clinical lectures / by Samuel Solly.

  • Samuel Solly
Date:
1865
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    usual way ; no embarrassment occurred. The edges of the wound were closed by a suture and isinglass plaster. The limb was Avrapped in a blanket, and the patient carried to bed. For several hours after the operation the heat of the limb was sensibly increased, but towards night the temperature diminished, and he complained of some pricking pain. 17th.—Has passed rather a restless night; slept a little towards morning. Pulse rather quick ; tongue moist and clean. He pro- gressed favourably, and recovered without a bad symptom. I here bring my labours for the present to a close. The form in which I have presented them to the public, but more especially to my friends and former pupils, v^ill, I hope, recall the happy days of hospital pupilage. As clinical lectures, they profess to relate nothing but that v^hich concerns bedside practice, and the immediate application of the leading principles of surgery. They are, therefore, imperfect, because they do not go into all those details v^hich belong exclusively to the regular course of lectures delivered in the schools. On this account it must be taken for granted that they are chiefly addressed to such as are already in some degree experienced in their profession, and that the beginner, v^hile he cannot fail to gain an insight into the nature of the subjects he will necessarily have to handle, will, nevertheless, discover that he has yet much to learn before he can enter into the spirit and fully appreciate the value of the lessons he might otherwise gather from them. Those who are already engaged in the turmoil of practice will, I believe, agree with me, that it is pleasant in after years to refresh our memories by going back to the events in w^hich we took our parts; to recover something from the lapse of time; to compare the pre- sent with the past; to live over again more than a quarter of a century—grande mortalis avi spatium; and, in fine, to communicate to others what we know and think, before the promptings of ambition have ceased to lure us into the expensive luxury of print.