A Manual of Military Surgery, Or, Hints on the Emergencies of Field, Camp, and Hospital Practice - Couverture rigide

Gross, Samuel D.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0930405048 ISBN 13 : 9780930405045

Editeur : Norman Publishing,U.S., 1988

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WrRS COLLECTION ,- ff MILITARY SURGERY. CHAPTER I. nrSTORICAI, SKETCH OF MILITARY SURGERY. The duties and requirements of military are essentially similar to those of civil snrccery. It is founded upon the same knowledge of anatomy, medicine, and the associate sciences; it demands the same qualifications, physical, moral, and intellectual. The difterence consists in the application of our knowledge rather than in its range or depth. The civil surgeon remains at home ;the military follows the army, examines recruits for the public service, and superintends the health of the troops. If the former is well educated, he will be quite as competent, at any time, as the latter to perform these duties ;for the emergencies of civil are often not less trying than those of military practice, although they may not be on so large a scale. The best civil have often also been the best military surgeons. In proof of this assertion it is necessary only to refer to the names of Pare, Wiseman, Schmucker, Kern, Larrey, Guthrie, Charles Bell, A lcock, Thomson, Ballingall, and Macleod, of Europe; or to those of Rush, Jones, Thacher, Mann, and Horner of our own country. Military surgery occupies, at the present day, a deservedly high rank in tlic estimation both of the profession and of the public. The war in the Crimea, the mutiny in I ndia, and the recent convulsions in I taly, all attended with so much waste of blood and life, have attracted to it the universal attention of the profession ;and the revolutionary movements now in progress in our own country invest it with a new and fearful interest to everjA merican physician. I ts praises have been sung by Homer, and, in all ages of the world, governments have extended to it a fostering hand.
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• Éditeur: Norman Publishing,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0930405048
• ISBN 13: 9780930405045
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
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