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Preface To The Seventh Edition

The fact that new editions of this little book continue to be called for from time to time justifies the author in feeling that his efforts to provide the student with a satisfactory groundwork for the study of surgery have not been altogether in vain.

He has taken pleasure, therefore, in subjecting the volume to a careful and thorough revision, in order that it might represent, as fully as is possible in a work of the kind, the present status of surgical theory and practice.

Numerous changes and additions have been made throughout the text ; and it seemed advisable to add a section on the modern treatment of appendicitis.

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Preface To First Edition

As one thrown yearly in contact with large numbers of medical students, and familiar with the furious rate at which they are driven, the writer feels assured that, under our present system of rapid education, outline works are of distinct value. Third year men who attend six lectures and two clinics daily have no time for reading, no time for systematizing their knowledge on any one subject. This work must either be done for them, or left undone. The author has carefully gone over the subject of Surgery, and has endeavored to emphasize the essential points as a framework upon which more detailed knowledge may be hung. Agnew, Ashhurst, Gross, Walsham, Tillmann, Kbnig, Treves, Weir, Smith, Gerster, and many others have been freely consulted. The table of Urinary Calculi is taken direct from Moullin's article in Treves's manual. The classification of Venereal Diseases follows that of White (University of Pennsylvania). To Mr. W. M. Alrich and Mr. Daniel Webster thanks are due for their valuable assistance.

The author has made an earnest effort to be accurate, concise, and modern.

E. M.