The Old and the Beginning of the New in Surgery (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Old and the Beginning of the New in Surgery It has happened to the writer to have lived in one of the world's periods of greatest activity and progress. It may be questioned whether the last half of the nineteenth century cannot claim the maximum of development in those conditions which have contributed to the improvement of man's stay on earth. In considering these conditions and the influences exerted by them, it must not be forgotten that the foundation upon which they are builded and upon which they rest took origin at the very beginning of man's existence - at the dawn of creation - and the structure of knowledge has grown progressively through the contributions which have been made in successive periods of time, influenced by the conditions of life which have constituted their environment. This, it may be said, has been eminently true in the development and growth of surgery. At one time the legitimate part of the barber's art, emancipated only from this ignoble association when the genius of those who were its disciples gave to it its proper place as a part of the science of medicine, through the ingrafting of the principles of that science, which were essential to its development and growth. In the successive ages of the world's history the value of life has been measured by the increase in knowledge of the means of its preservation, and all efforts have been directed to those ends, until in this day the prevention of disease, through the prevention of the causes which produce it, has become the ideal object of the labors of the disciples of the art of healing. 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.