Manual of minor surgery and bandaging for the use of house-surgeons, dressers and junior practitioners.

  • Heath, Christopher, 1835-1905.
Date:
1889
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Manual of minor surgery and bandaging for the use of house-surgeons, dressers and junior practitioners. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    TO THE FIRST EDITION In ■writing the following pages, my object has primarily been to offer to those young surgeons, who are holding the responsible post of house-surgeon or dresser in the various hospitals and dispensaries, some hints on the treatment of the numerous accidents and emergencies daily coming under their care. Having myself filled the offices of dresser and house-surgeon to a metro- politan hospital, and having, moreover, been a constant attendant at two such institutions since that time, I venture to hope that the suggestions here incorporated will be found serviceable. It has been my endeavour to avoid, as far as possible, the repetition of matter which will be found at greater length in the various handbooks of surgery, and rather to call attention to those minor points which are imparted only by oral instruction, or are simply imitated from one's predecessors. Although, for convenience, specially addressed to house-surgeons, I am not without hope that these