# Manual of Surgery

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## OXFORD MEDICAL PUBLICATIONS MANUAL OF SURGERY

* First Edition 1904
* Second Edition 1907
* Third Edition 1909
* Fourth Edition 1911
* " " Second Impression 1913
* Fifth Edition 1915
* " " Second Impression 1919
* Sixth Edition 1921

## PREFACE TO SIXTH EDITION

Much has happened since this Manual was last revised, and many surgical lessons have been learned in the hard school of war. Some may yet have to be unlearned, and others have but little bearing on the problems presented to the civilian surgeon. Save in its broadest principles, the surgery of warfare is a thing apart from the general surgery of civil life, and the exhaustive literature now available on every aspect of it makes it unnecessary that it should receive detailed consideration in a manual for students. In preparing this new edition, therefore, we have endeavoured to incorporate only such additions to our knowledge and resources as our experience leads us to believe will prove of permanent value in civil practice.
For the rest, the text has been revised, condensed, and in places rearranged; a number of old illustrations have been discarded, and a greater number of new ones added. Descriptions of operative procedures have been omitted from the _Manual_, as they are to be found in the companion volume on _Operative Surgery_, the third edition of which appeared some months ago.
We have retained the Basle anatomical nomenclature, as extended experience has confirmed our preference for it. For the convenience of readers who still employ the old terms, these are given in brackets after the new.
This edition of the _Manual_ appears in three volumes; the first being devoted to General Surgery, the other two to Regional Surgery. This arrangement has enabled us to deal in a more consecutive manner than hitherto with the surgery of the Extremities, including Fractures and Dislocations.
We have once more to express our thanks to colleagues in the Edinburgh School and to other friends for aiding us in providing new illustrations, and for other valuable help, as well as to our publishers for their generosity in the matter of illustrations.
EDINBURGH,
    March 1921.

## CONTENTS

* Chapter I - REPAIR 1
* Chapter II - CONDITIONS WHICH INTERFERE WITH REPAIR 17
* Chapter III - INFLAMMATION 31
* Chapter IV - SUPPURATION 45
* Chapter V - ULCERATION AND ULCERS 68
* Chapter VI - GANGRENE 86
* Chapter VII - BACTERIAL AND OTHER WOUND INFECTIONS 107
* Chapter VIII - TUBERCULOSIS 133
* Chapter IX - SYPHILIS 146
* Chapter X - TUMOURS 181
* Chapter XI - INJURIES 218
* Chapter XII - METHODS OF WOUND TREATMENT 241
* Chapter XIII - CONSTITUTIONAL EFFECTS OF INJURIES 249
* Chapter XIV - THE BLOOD VESSELS 258
* Chapter XV - THE LYMPH VESSELS AND GLANDS 321
* Chapter XVI - THE NERVES 342
* Chapter XVII - SKIN AND SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUES 376
* Chapter XVIII - THE MUSCLES, TENDONS, AND TENDON SHEATHS 405
* Chapter XIX - THE BURSAE 426
* Chapter XX - DISEASES OF BONE 434
* Chapter XXI - DISEASES OF JOINTS 501
* INDEX 547

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