A manual of surgery for students and physicians

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Preface To The Fifth Edition

The manuscript of the fifth edition of this manual was practically completed by Dr. Stewart at the time of his death. His revision included radical changes in and many additions to those portions dealing wnth surgical technic, surgical infection and disinfection, wounds, effects of heat and cold, shock, plastic operations, blood transfusion, fractures, and amputations; also the bones, joints, nerves, chest, intestines, rectum, kidney and bladder. He wrote a new chapter on unnecessary abdominal section and rewrote the sections on the abdomen, stomach, operations on the stomach, intestines, intestinal obstruction, biliary passages and the pancreas.

At the suggestion of Dr. Stewart, a study of military surgery was begun in 191 5 with ser\ace in the French army and continued until my discharge from the American army in 1919. The results of this military experience have been incorporated in this edition.

Dr. Edward J. Klopp, Dr. Henry P. Brown, Dr. W. Edgar Christie and Dr. S. I. Bloomhardt have given valuable assistance in the preparation of the manuscript and the reading of the proof.

The pri\ilege of completing the manuscript and preparing it for publication adds to the many obligations incurred during the years I was associated with Dr. Stewart.

Walter Estell Lee.

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Contents

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I. Diagnosis i

II. Anesthesia 21