Surgical Diagnosis (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Surgical Diagnosis The simplicity and safety of surgical intervention are, as a rule, proportionate to timeliness in diagnosis. This, in turn, is usually dependent upon the judgment of the general practitioner, who is, as a rule, the first to see the patient and should, therefore, be qualified to determine at the earliest moment when surgical treatment is required. The practitioner cannot be expected, however, to acquire such a knowl edge of the probabilities deducible from general symptoms and of the variations from type as is necessary to establish the final diagnosis. This can be gained only by a conscious or subconscious grouping of the clini cal features of many similar cases. The proof of the advantage of early diagnosis is afforded by the lessened mortality which is found to result from such diagnosis in every department of modern operative surgery. This is in part due to more perfected technique and more rational after treatment, but mainly to the simplicity of earlier Operation. To this element is also due, almost entirely, the larger percentage of radical cures. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.