A guide to the aseptic treatment of wounds / by C. Schimmelbusch ; preface by E. von Bergmann ; tr. from the 2nd rev. German ed., with express permission of the author, by Frank J. Thornbury ; with 43 illustrations.

  • Schimmelbusch, Curt, 1860-1895.
Date:
1895
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Credit: A guide to the aseptic treatment of wounds / by C. Schimmelbusch ; preface by E. von Bergmann ; tr. from the 2nd rev. German ed., with express permission of the author, by Frank J. Thornbury ; with 43 illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. It was with the belief that a service of some value might be rendered to the American profession, including practitioners and students, that I have undertaken the translation of this work. The flattering reception given to the first and second editions in Germany, and the fact of the very early translation of the former into several foreign languages, justified the inference that this might prove a timely and serviceable con- tribution to English medical literature. The improved knowledge of micro-organisms and of their influence in the causation of the transmissible wound diseases has so completely revolutionized surgical ideas, and led to such extensive alterations in surgical methods, that a demand seems to have been created for a concise treatise which would embrace the advances made and plainly indicate the present relations of the results of bacteriological study to surgery. To practitioners who have not had the opportunity of observing the character of work done in the modern opera- ting arena, a manual of this kind must be of particular value. The simplest surgical procedure—a catheterization, the ad- ministration of a hypodermic injection, or the dressing of even the slightest wound—requires for the insurance of its successful issue and the avoidance of danger, an accurate understanding of the principles of asepsis ; in the performance of all major operations such knowledge is imperative. The student will, through the medium of this volume, be en- abled to acquire a more comprehensive view of the application of the most recent bacteriological researches to surgery than his general teaching will ordinarily admit ; while the skilled operator is presented with a digest of the literature pertaining