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acher in the Edinburgh School.
An earnest endeavour has been used to make the references correct and copious: for any mistakes or omissions the author would crave indulgence.
The four plates which precede the letterpress were drawn on wood (from original photographs) by Mr. D.W. Williamson, Melbourne Place, and the lines of incision for the various operations were added by the author.
The rough woodcuts scattered through the work were drawn on wood by the author, and for their roughness he, not his engraver, is responsible. He also hopes that the references in the letterpress will be accepted as sufficient acknowledgment of the true ownership, in those few instances in which the idea of the diagram has been borrowed.
It has been thought unnecessary to introduce woodcuts of surgical instruments, as the illustrated catalogues lately published by Weiss, Maw, and others, are sufficiently accurate.
In excuse of the frequent baldness and brevity of the style, the author must point to the size and price of the work. Its composition would have been easier had its dimensions been greater.
Though intended chiefly to guide the studies, on the dead subject, of students and junior practitioners, the author ventures to hope that the Manual may be useful to those who, in the public services, in the colonies, or in lonely country districts, find themselves constrained to attempt the performance of operations which, in the towns, usually fall to the lot of a few Hospital Surgeons.
JOSEPH BELL.
5 CASTLE TERRACE, EDINBURGH, July 1866.
CHAPTER I.
LIGATURE OF ARTERIES.
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Ligature of Arteries--General Maxims--Ligature of Aorta--Iliacs--Gluteal--Femoral--Popliteal--Innominate--Carotids-- Lingual--Subclavian--Brachial, etc., 1-45
CHAPTER II.
AMPUTATIONS.
Eras of Amputation--Flap
A Manual of the Operations of Surgery, page 2
by Joseph Bell