D'arcy Power
Published: 2015-06-16
Total Pages: 592
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Excerpt from The Surgical Diseases of Children and Their Treatment by Modern Methods Little excuse appears to be needed for the present work. The surgery of childhood is singularly wanting in textbooks. There are but a few in German, still fewer in French. In English, only the works of Mr. Holmes and Mr. Owen are devoted to pure surgery. Messrs. Ashby and Wright's excellent treatise, and Keating's Cyclopædia of the Diseases of Children, combine medicine with surgery. Some excuse is perhaps necessary for the fact that the work is written by a single individual, and not by that system of collaboration which is now fashionable in medical literature. I believe, however, that the loss in detail is more than balanced by the gain in harmony, for conflicting statements are less likely to be made when a book is written by one person. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.