Sajous's Analytical Cyclopedia of Practical Medicine, Vol. 6 (Classic Reprint)

This volume is the last of the first series of the present work. That the promises enumerated in the first preface have been fulfilled can readily be ascertained by referring to the voluminous index given at the end of the present volume a mass of literature probably never before brought together within the limits of six books. The work presents all the general diseases usually described in text-books and besides what progressive features the past decade has furnished. A number of subjects contain no excerpts from literature; in such instances the chiefand departmenteditors have found it more advantageous to incorporate the new ideas recently contributed by investigators within the text proper. In some, indeed, nothing but new facts could be introduced, so radically did the modem conception of the given subject differ from the older. On the other hand, some subjects could not be granted excerpt matter, because investigation had given them but little if any attention during the last decade, or because nothing new had been contributed. Surgical subjects have been given space corresponding with their practical importance. The aim has not been to repeat what any physician already has several times upon his shelves the classic procedures incorporated in books on minor surgery and repeated in the larger works, such as ligations, amputations, resections, etc. but under each surgical disease, the special procedure indicated, besides the mere mention of the necessity of such an operation as amputation, resection, etc., is also furnished when such a special procedure has been devised. The subject ofO bstetrics is replete with subdivisions which are but seldom if ever modified and which represent the foundation of every accoucheurs education. All these have not been incorporated within the limits of the Cyclopedia. The various articles given bear upon the subdivisions
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