Surgical Delusions and Follies

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Excerpt from Surgical Delusions and Follies: A Revision of the Address in Surgery for 1884 of the Medical Society of the State of PennsylvaniaIt was, I think, the Professor at the Breakfast Table who said that the learned professions had but recently emerged from a state of quasi-barbarism. If clinging to ancient fetiches with the superstitious awe of equatorial Africa is an evidence of barba rism, much of the surgery of to-day is indeed barbaric. Many surgical theories and pro cedures having become traditional, are ac cepted as true and correct, merely because reverence for antiquity or careless accept ance has not questioned their right to be classed as surgical facts. The present age, however, is air incredulous one, it not only demands accurate investigation of all such claims, but calls for a non-partisan expres sion of Opinion that will dispel any surgical delusions that are found to exist.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.