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Excerpt from Lectures Upon the Principles of Surgery: Delivered at the University of Michigan
Although many excellent works have been written treating of the Principles of Surgery, the attempt to render them too comprehensive has marred their useful ness for the undergraduate, or undue prominence has been given to the author's special methods of applying principles to practice. It must be manifest that it is impossible in the compass of a few hundreds of pages to give adequately all the essentials of surgical path ology, bacteriology, and the more or less obsolete teach ings of the past, when each of these subjects requires a larger volume than any work extant on the Principles of Surgery; yet this has been attempted by many writers.
Modern specialism in the teaching of medical science has recognized the necessity of, and has provided for, specific instruction in pathology, bacteriology, etc., so that anything beyond a mere reference to the peculiar ities of form and growth of various germs, or the changes undergone during diverse pathological proc esses, would be a useless repetition, occupying time more properly belonging to new studies.
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