A Manual of the Operations of Surgery / For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners

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TO THE MEMORY OF
SURGEON TO THE QUEEN IN SCOTLAND
PROFESSOR OF CLINICAL SURGERY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH ETC. ETC.
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED BY HIS OLD HOUSE-SURGEON AND ASSISTANT
THE AUTHOR.
To retain the small size of the work and to keep it up to date have been the Author's aim in the Fifth Edition.
20 Melville Street, Edinburgh,
August 1883.
Having been asked, year after year, by the members of my Class for Operative Surgery, to recommend to them some Manual of Surgical Operations which might at once guide them in their choice of operations, and give minute details as to the mode of performance, I have been gradually led to undertake the production of this little work.
My aim has been to describe as simply as possible those operations which are most likely to prove useful, and especially those which, from their nature, admit of being practised on the dead body.