The Mechanics of Surgery: Comprising Detailed Descriptions, Illustrations, and Lists of the Instruments, Appliances, and Furniture Necessary in Modern Surgical Art (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Mechanics of Surgery: Comprising Detailed Descriptions, Illustrations, and Lists of the Instruments, Appliances, and Furniture Necessary in Modern Surgical Art If the practitioner corresponds with, Or visits the surgical instrument dealer, he Often fares no better, for the latter is only too likely to have no knowledge Of anatomy or Operative technique. Too frequently he buys and sells instruments just as the hardware dealer does common tools, with but little more information regarding their proper construction and applica tion than is involved in the name, cost, selling price and general mechanical principles. This being true, is it at all surprising that a large percentage Of surgical instruments are found unsatisfactory, and that designers and makers are so generally condemned? The instrument maker, on the other hand, who happens to be Of a mechanical turn Of mind and fairly well informed In Operative surgery, can usually give judicious advice In the selection Of instrument patterns. 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.