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The First Lines Of The Practice Of Surgery - Softcover

Samuel Cooper

 
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Synopsis

The First Lines Of The Practice Of Surgery: Designed As An Introduction For Students, And A Concise Book Of Reference For Practitioners by Samuel Cooper provides a historically situated overview of an early 19th-century medical manual. The excerpt includes front matter and begins Part I: General Surgical Subjects, outlining a pedagogy that treats inflammation as central to surgical reasoning and emphasizes antiphlogistic measures such as bleeding, purging, opium for pain, diet, and careful wound care. Topics cover the nature of inflammation, fever and its management, suppuration and mortification, local inflammations and lesions, and principles of hemorrhage control with tools like tourniquets, ligatures, cautery, and styptics. Practical procedures and commentary on opening abscesses, drain placement, and early union are presented alongside cautions against excessive intervention. The text situates its guidance within humoral and vascular theories and cites authorities from the era, aiming to instruct students and practitioners in a comprehensive, technique-focused approach to surgery in the era.

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