Author: Ambrose L. Ranney

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-18

Total Pages: 690

ISBN-13: 9780331295962

Excerpt from A Practical Treatise on Surgical Diagnosis: Designed as a Manual for Practitioners and Students in Medicine Scarcely more than a year has yet elapsed since the first edition of this work was given to the public. At that time, the question whether the plan of the book would meet professional favor was certainly an open one, and it affords some personal gratification that the increasing demand for the work, both as a text-book and as an aid to the general practitioner, justifies a revision of its matter and an addition to its former pages. I have changed my opinion somewhat since this work was first issued, as to the advisability of employing the plan of contrast of symptoms, in the form of differential tables, to the exclusion of de scriptive text; as I have found that, however valuable they might be as a summary to the student, or as an aid to the practitioner at the bedside, such tables alone will not fill the requirements of a text-book, or be as generally useful as if accompanied by a concise and general enumeration of the etiology and symptomatology of each of the more important diseases to which the attention of the surgeon is most often directed, and which must, therefore, form the basis of most lectures given to the student. 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.