Surgical Therapeutics (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Surgical Therapeutics<br><br>There are hundreds of books telling how to operate - not one describing the proper management of the patient without operation. Almost as many give careful directions as to when operations should be done - but with only trifling mention of the proper preparation of the patient for the operative work, of the best way to make him comfortable after operation, or of the right management of the wound to get ideal results. In other words: there is no work on the non-operative treatment of surgical conditions. The object of this little book is to give some of the important points neglected by or omitted from the more elaborate works on surgery.<br><br>It is based chiefly upon personal experience, especially in the management of cases in the country and in private houses in the city, though of course many of the suggestions are for especial use in hospital practice. It is not intended to be regarded as a complete treatise on "Surgical Therapeutics," indeed, it might perhaps more properly be called "Practical Suggestions for the Management of Surgical Cases." If it meets the approval of the vast number of doctors who try to manage their own surgical cases, it will be followed later by a more, elaborate, complete work covering the entire field of non-operative surgery.<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.