Author: Charles Bell

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-10

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9780260709257

Excerpt from A System of Operative Surgery, Vol. 1: Founded on the Basis of Anatomy In the study of anatomy and surgery, strong motives are required to investigation and experiment. Our enquiries must still be rendered interesting, and our industry excited, by ingenious theory and speculative views. Without these, our efforts will be languid, and our pursuit of science fu tile and without energy. But the author Of this work must disclaim all these more pleasing methods of investigating his subjects, and keep steadily in his mind the Object he has already professed. Having to deliver a simple and concise system of rules for the actual practice Of surgery, he must keep close to the text, and can never venture to indulge in disquisition but on points the most essential. His wish is, that he may be said to have taken a simple and correct, not an ingenious View Of the practice Of surgery. This work I profess to be original. In writing it, I have not collected my library around me, and consulted books chiefly. But though original in one sense, the student may discover in it no novelties, nor the intelligent surgeon, who holds communication with his fellows Of the profession, find any rules or Observations with which he is not familiar. 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.