ELEMENTS OF SURGERY:

BY
ROBERT LISTON,
SURGEON TO THE NORTH-LONDON HOSPITAL, PROFESSOR Of CLINICAL SURGERY,
ETC., ETC., ETC.
FROM THE SECOND LONDON EDITION,
WITH
COPIOUS NOTES AND ADDITIONS,
BY
SAMUEL D. GROSS, M.D.,
PROFESSOR OF SURGERY IN THE LOUISVILLE MEDICAL INSTITUTE, SURGEON
TO THE LOUISVILLE MARINE HOSPITAL, ETC., ETC.
Illustrated
WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS.
Philadelphia:
ED. BARRINGTON & GEO. D. HASWELL.
NEW YORK—J. & H.G. LANGLEY: CHARLESTON, S. C.—WM. H. BERRETT:
RICHMOND, VA.—SMITH, DRINKER & MORRIS:
LOUISVILLE, KY.—JAMES MAXWELL, JR.
1842.


[Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1842, by BARRINGTON & HASWELL, in the Clerk’s office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.]


TO
WILLARD PARKER, M. D.,
Professor of Surgery in the College of Physicians and Surgeons
in the City of New York,
THIS EDITION OF MR. LISTON’S WORK
Is Inscribed,
AS A TESTIMONIAL OF RESPECT
FOR HIS UNTIRING ZEAL IN SURGICAL PURSUITS,
AND OF ESTEEM FOR HIS PRIVATE VIRTUES,
BY HIS FRIEND AND FORMER COLLEAGUE,

THE EDITOR.


PREFACE
TO THE AMERICAN EDITION.