Outlines of surgery and surgical pathology : including the diagnosis and treatment of obscure and urgent cases and the surgical anatomy of some important structures and regions / by F. Le Gros Clark.

  • Clark, Frederick Le Gros, 1811-1892.
Date:
1872
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Credit: Outlines of surgery and surgical pathology : including the diagnosis and treatment of obscure and urgent cases and the surgical anatomy of some important structures and regions / by F. Le Gros Clark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    TO THE FIRST EDITION. The present “ Outlines” comprise, for the most part, little more than the notes from which the Author’s Lectures have been delivered, somewhat amplified; and they are offered to the Student, in the hope that he may be encouraged to fill in the details from actual observation, and thereby cultivate a habit of self-reliance, instead of depending too much on book- teaching in his early studies. Illustrative notes and cases, thus collected by himself, can scarcely fail to be of lasting value to him in his future practice. Beyond this legitimate aim, the present volume can, of course, have no pretensions in common with more comprehensive “ Systems” of Surgery. Progress in scientific knowledge leads to generalisation ; and, happily, Surgery affords no exception to this rule. Facts usually admit of a rational explanation, by referring them to the few and simple principles with which they are naturally allied. The aiuthor trusts that this association has been rendered appa- rent in the present epitome ; and that the abruptness of diction, in which the information is conveyed, will be excused as inseparable from compressed descriptive writing. The concluding Section is designed to compensate, in some measure, for the brevity with which subjects of great practical