Excerpt from Cornell University Medical Bulletin; July, 1930, Vol. 20: Announcement of the Medical College M.D. 1895, Bellevue Hospital Medical College. Assistant in Pathology 1901 - 1904, Instructor 1904-1908, Assistant Professor Of Bacteriology 1908 - 1909, Professor of Bacteriology and Immunology, Cornell. 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.
Excerpt from Cornell University Medical Bulletin, Vol. 13: Studies From the Department of Surgery; July, 1923 An abscess treated as described above drains in a marvellous fashion. The fluid readily escapes both alongside the rubber dam and by capillary drainage through the loosely packed gauze. The intraabdominal contents are kept back with a minimum Of trauma and irritation. The removal Of the gauze and the tampon itself is absolutely painless, a factor to which I attach the highest importance. In cases Of a large neglected abscess it is my custom to rely largely upon this large tampon and not use any sutures in the abdominal wall. Sutures in the abdominal wall have two disadvantages: (i) Stitch holes are likely to be come infected and be Of themselves a complication, and (2) by locking up Of the fascial planes, which are likely to become infected, secondary infection of the abdominal wall with necrosis Of the fascia and Sloughing may occur. By the omission Of sutures and reliance on the tampon, we have for the most part a wound which has absolutely no reaction and is absolutely painless. In fact, we have the impression that the convalescence Of patients treated in this way is very much more comfortable than by other methods. 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.
Recounts the remarkable life of a Prussian/Polish Jew who immigrated to the United States as a teenager in the 1850s and became one of the nation’s best-known physicians by the turn of the century After medical study in South Carolina and Virginia on the eve of the Civil War, Simon Baruch served the Confederacy as a surgeon for three years, twice undergoing capture and internment. Despite economic hardships while practicing in South Carolina during Reconstruction, he helped to reactivate the State Medical Association and served as president of the State Board of Health. In 1881 he joined the exodus of southern physicians and scientists of that period, taking up residence in New York City, where he rose to prominence through his advocacy of surgery in one of the early operations for appendicitis and through is role as the protective physician in a widely publicized “child cruelty” case involving the musical prodigy, Josef Hofmann. Baruch became a leader in the nationwide movement to establish free public baths for tenement dwellers and in the development of expert medical journalism. Although his advocacy of such natural remedies as water, fresh air, and diet often made him appear unaccountably iconoclastic to his contemporaries, he has gained posthumous recognition as a pioneer in physical medicine. Bernard N. Baruch, one of his four sons, has memorialized this work through endowments for research and instruction in physical medicine and rehabilitation. Ward reconstructs the life of a medical student in the South at the opening of the Civil War, the adventures of a Confederate surgeon, and the difficulties of a practitioner in Reconstruction South Carolina. Simon Baruch’s physician’s registers and his correspondence with colleagues afford the reader an immediate sense of the therapeutic dilemmas facing physicians and patients of his era. Baruch’s experiences while establishing himself in New York City after 1881 reflect the challenges facing those trying to break into what was then the nation’s medical capital—as well as that city’s rich opportunities and heady intellectual atmosphere. His energetic campaign for free public baths illustrates one of the most colorful chapters of American social history, as immigrants flooded the cities at the turn of the century. As medical editor of the New York Sun from 1912 to 1918, Baruch touched on most of the health concerns of that period and a few—such as handgun control—that persist to this day.
