Synopsis
Outlines Of A Course Of Lectures On The Principles And Practise Of Surgery by Eli Geddings is a 19th?century medical text compiled from lecture notes delivered to students at the Medical College of the State of South Carolina, Charleston, 1858, with editorial additions by Thomas S. Waring and Samuel Logan. The work presents a three?part curriculum: Part I, General Surgical Diseases (inflammation, abscesses, ulcers, mortification, and related topics with essays on bedsores, hospital gangrene, pyemia, and syphilis); Part II, Structural Affections (fractures, joints, bone pathology, amputations, wounds); Part III, Regional or Topographical Surgery (head/face, thorax, abdomen, etc.). It treats inflammation as the central pathological process guiding diagnosis and treatment, classifies inflammatory states, and distinguishes local surgical diseases from systemic disorders, while detailing both theory and practice—bloodletting, purgatives, caustics, setons, incisions, ligatures, bandaging, and dressings. The text is didactic and instructional, intended for medical students and junior surgeons, reflecting antebellum medical pedagogy and techniques.
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