Elements of Surgery. Robert Liston

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       Robert Liston

      Elements of Surgery

      Published by Good Press, 2021

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      EAN 4057664574671

Table of Contents

       PREFACE.

       PART FIRST. OF INFLAMMATION.

       OF SUPPURATION AS A CONSEQUENCE OF INFLAMMATORY ACTION.

       OF ERYSIPELAS.

       OF FURUNCULUS AND ANTHRAX.

       OF INFLAMMATION OF THE MUCOUS MEMBRANES.

       ON HYPERTROPHY AND ATROPHY OF THE ARTICULAR CARTILAGES, WITH EBURNATION OF THE SURFACES OF THE BONES.

       SCROFULOUS DISEASE OF JOINTS.

       NEURALGIC AFFECTIONS OF JOINTS.

       ON GROWTHS FROM THE SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE, AND LOOSE SUBSTANCES IN THE JOINTS.

       AFFECTIONS OF SYNOVIAL POUCHES OR BURSÆ.

       OF COXALGIA, MORBUS COXARIUS, OR HIP-JOINT DISEASE.

       ON CERTAIN ALTERATIONS OF FORM IN THE HEAD AND NECK OF THE THIGH BONE.

       OF INFLAMMATION OF BONE, AND DISEASES THENCE ARISING.

       FRAGILITAS OSSIUM

       OF MOLLITIES OSSIUM, RACHITIS, ETC.

       OF INFLAMMATORY AND OTHER AFFECTIONS OF THE ARTERIAL SYSTEM.

       ANEURISM

       OF INFLAMMATION OF VEINS.

       OF TUMOURS.

       FUNGUS HÆMATODES

       THE PAINFUL TUBERCLE.

       OF POLYPUS.

       OF ENCYSTED TUMOURS.

       OF TUMOURS OF BONES.

       OF WOUNDS.

       TETANUS

       OF ULCERS.

       OF HOSPITAL OR CONTAGIOUS GANGRENE, AND SLOUGHING PHAGÆDENA.

       THE MALIGNANT PUSTULE

       OF ULCERS OF THE GENITAL ORGANS, AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES.

       OF SCALDS AND BURNS.

       PART SECOND. OF PARTICULAR SURGICAL SUBJECTS.

       INJURIES OF THE HEAD.

       DISEASES OF THE EYE AND ITS APPENDAGES.

       DISEASES OF THE EYEBALL

       [STRABISMUS.

       ULCERS OF THE TONGUE.

       [HYDROCELE OF THE NECK.

       AFFECTIONS OF THE CHEST.

       AFFECTIONS OF THE ABDOMEN.

       AFFECTIONS OF THE RECTUM AND NEIGHBOURING PARTS.

       INDEX.

PREFACE.

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      The rapid advancement made in the pathology and treatment of surgical diseases demands a perpetual revision and correction of the systematic works devoted to this department of the healing art.

      Accordingly, text books, various in merit and extent, have emanated from the different schools. Several of these have, by successive editions, kept pace with the science; whilst others have fallen into disuse.

      In this part of Britain, the systems of Latta, B. Bell, and Allan, occupied the field; but it being now vacant, I venture to supply the deficiency, by reducing the heads of my lectures into a compendium, or guide, for those students who resort to this city.

      It must appear superfluous to preface such a work by anatomical descriptions, anatomy being now studied more generally, and with greater zeal, than heretofore. Pathology also is more attended to, and better understood. To which circumstances are to be ascribed the improvements in surgical science, as