Text-Book of Operative Surgery, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Kocher, Theodor

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ISBN 10 : 1330319850 ISBN 13 : 9781330319857

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Présentation de l'éditeur

No apology is needed for the endeavour to render more accessible to the profession in this country a work on operative surgery by so eminent an authority asP rofessor Kocher. The book is essentially a record of the authors personal experience and of his own methods of operation. To avoid an appearance of egotism he has written in the first person plural, and this plan has been followed in the translation. The first English edition, which appeared in 1895, was translated from the second German edition, while the secondE nglish edition, which was twice the size of its predecessor, was translated from the fourth German edition. The present volume is a translation of the fifth and latest German edition. The amount of new material that has been added, the rearrangement and revision of the text, and the great number of new illustrations introduced have been responsible for an increase of 300 pages. The work now covers the whole field of operative surgery. In the first of the five parts into which the volume is divided, the preparation of the patient, the disinfection of the surgeon and his assistants, the methods of sterilisation, surgical technique, treatment of wounds and anaesthesia have been greatly amplified, local and regional anaesthesia being dealt with at length. In the second part the surgery of the vascular system has been systematically considered, no less than 106 operations on the arteries being described, while the suture of veins receives full attention. The third part, dealing with the surgery of the nervous system, has been rearraD ged as well as largely amplified. The portion devoted to the operations on the brain and cranial nerves has been practically rewritten, and full acknowledgment is given to the work of the present-day neurologists, especially in connection with the removal of tumours and of the Gasserian
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330319850
• ISBN 13: 9781330319857
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 410
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