Elements of Surgery
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Excerpt from Elements of SurgeryThe first edition Of the present Treatise was published at Edinburgh in 1831, some time prior to the author's removal to London. It was originally comprised in three volumes. A second impression, Of which this is a reprint, appeared at London in 1840, in a revised and improved form. The favourable reception which the publication has met with in this country, and the desire I have felt to introduce it into the school with which I am connected, as a text-book, have induced me to prepare it forthe American press with particular care. Among the additions, properly S...
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- ELEMENTS OF SURGERY:
- PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION.
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS.
- PART FIRST. OF INFLAMMATION.
- OF SUPPURATION AS A CONSEQUENCE OF INFLAMMATORY ACTION.
- OF ERYSIPELAS.
- OF FURUNCULUS AND ANTHRAX.
- OF INFLAMMATION OF THE MUCOUS MEMBRANES.
- OF INFLAMMATION OF THE SEROUS MEMBRANES.
- OF INFLAMMATION OF TISSUES COMPOSING THE ARTICULATIONS.
- ON HYPERTROPHY AND ATROPHY OF THE ARTICULAR CARTILAGES, WITH EBURNATION OF THE SURFACES OF THE BONES.
- SCROFULOUS DISEASE OF JOINTS.
- NEURALGIC AFFECTIONS OF JOINTS.
- ON GROWTHS FROM THE SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE, AND LOOSE SUBSTANCES IN THE JOINTS.
- AFFECTIONS OF SYNOVIAL POUCHES OR BURSÆ.
- OF COXALGIA, MORBUS COXARIUS, OR HIP-JOINT DISEASE.
- ON CERTAIN ALTERATIONS OF FORM IN THE HEAD AND NECK OF THE THIGH BONE.
- OF INFLAMMATION OF BONE, AND DISEASES THENCE ARISING.
- SUPPURATION IN BONE
- CARIES
- NECROSIS
- FRAGILITAS OSSIUM
- OF MOLLITIES OSSIUM, RACHITIS, ETC.
- OF INFLAMMATORY AND OTHER AFFECTIONS OF THE ARTERIAL SYSTEM.
- ANEURISM
- OF ANEURISM BY ANASTOMOSIS.
- OF INFLAMMATION OF VEINS.
- OF TUMOURS.
- ADIPOSE TUMOURS.
- OF FIBROUS TUMOURS.
- OF ENCEPHALOID TUMOURS.
- OF MELANOID TUMORS.
- OF CARCINOMATOUS TUMOURS.
- FUNGUS HÆMATODES
- THE PAINFUL TUBERCLE.
- OF POLYPUS.
- OF ENCYSTED TUMOURS.
- OF TUMOURS OF BONES.
- OF OSTEOSARCOMA.
- SPINA VENTOSA.
- ANEURISMAL TUMOURS.
- HYDATIC TUMORS.
- TREATMENT OF TUMOURS.
- OF WOUNDS.
- TETANUS
- OF ULCERS.
- OF HOSPITAL OR CONTAGIOUS GANGRENE, AND SLOUGHING PHAGÆDENA.
- THE MALIGNANT PUSTULE
- OF ULCERS OF THE GENITAL ORGANS, AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES.
- OF SCALDS AND BURNS.
- PART SECOND. OF PARTICULAR SURGICAL SUBJECTS.
- INJURIES OF THE HEAD.
- FRACTURES OF THE CRANIAL BONES.
- DISEASES OF THE EYE AND ITS APPENDAGES.
- DISEASES OF THE EYEBALL
- [STRABISMUS.
- ULCERS OF THE TONGUE.
- THE EXTRACTION OF TEETH
- [HYDROCELE OF THE NECK.
- AFFECTIONS OF THE CHEST.
- AFFECTIONS OF THE ABDOMEN.
- AFFECTIONS OF THE RECTUM AND NEIGHBOURING PARTS.
- FOOTNOTES:
- INDEX.
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