Surgery of the Ambulatory Patient [antikvár]

An experience of somé years in treating the surgical lesions which occur Ín ambulatory patients has indicated the need for a text devoted to this much-neglected branch of surgery. The larger books on surgical practice are usually written by men who are too far away from this type of work to appreciate its problems. Surgery of the ambulatory patient is the surgery performed more often by the younger men and generál practitioners, and it is the hope of the author that this volume may prove an aid to them in their everyday practice. The lesions discussed are those which are met regularly in an office or out-patient clinic, and an effort has been made to describe the best methods of treating them as proved by personal experience. No subject is included in this volume which cannot be cared for in an ambulatory patient, except for a few topics which are mentioned for purposes of differentiating them from the lesions which fali into the sphere of ambulatory surgery. In almost all instances, the author has carried out the recommended therapy and has tried to point out the mistakes of treatment as well as the successes. The book is divided into three parts. The first is a more or less generál discussion of typical lesions, with a description of their cause, course, and care. The second part of the book is on régiónál surgery. Here are detailed the common surgical lesions of the specific parts and the methods of treatment. The third section deals with fractures and dislocations and their treatment in ambulatory patients. Many associates and colleagues have aided in the preparation of the material for this book and to them the author expresses his sincere thanks. Dr. Lawrence Curtis has made extensive contributions and suggestions in the chapter on the mouth, Dr. Edward H. Campbell in the sections on the ear and nose, Dr. Donald M. Pillsbury on dermatologic lesions, and Dr. Ivan B. Taylor in the chapter on anesthesia. The chapter on genito-urinary diseases is entirely the work of Doctor Boland Hughes. My associate, Dr. Louis Kaplan, has prepared and written the entire section on fractures and dislocations, as well as the sections on the knee and shoulder. Drs. Dávid P. Anderson and Róbert Welty aided greatly in gathering and assembling somé of the material. The x-rays are in almost every instance from the X-ray Department of the University