A Year-Book of Surgery for 1883 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Year-Book of Surgery for 1883<br><br>The attempt has been made to give in the following pages condensed reviews of some of the more important contributions to surgery in the current literature of the past year. It has been impossible to approach completeness in the work, owing to the vast extent of the field to be explored and to the limited space at my command. It has been thought best to exclude bibliography, since the ground is already efficiently covered by the Index Medicus. Great assistance has been derived from that periodical and from certain journals, especially the Phila. Medical News and the London Medical Record. Articles have been selected with a view of presenting those which contain some point of special interest or value. As far as possible full credit has been given to the sources from which the various papers have been taken and to their respective authors.<br><br>It is interesting to observe with what impunity operations, almost unthought of in pre-antiseptic times, are now undertaken. In no department is the influence of antiseptic principles more conspicuous than in that of abdominal surgery. The stomach, the intestines, the kidneys, and the spleen are not beyond the reach of the knife. It may not yet be possible to say that humanity has received as much of benefit as surgery has gained in brilliancy; but evidently, with improved methods and wider experience, progress is being made.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.