Modern Methods of Diagnosis in Urinary Surgery (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Modern Methods of Diagnosis in Urinary Surgery Specialism is no new thing in surgery, for it existed among the ancient Egyptians to a degree even more extreme than at the present day. It has its origin indeed in the nature of surgery itself, for the keynote of surgery is the local treatment of local diseases. Nevertheless the body, in spite of the number and diversities of its parts, is a unit. Its local mechanisms are all composed of the same fundamental elements and are all controlled and harmonized by means of the circulatory and nervous systems. The art of surgery has the same fundamental unity to whatever part of the body it may be applied. Specialization in surgery is merely the application to particular parts of the body of the same fundamental principles and methods which it employs in all. It is one of the drawbacks of a too exclusive specialism that it tends to hide this obvious truth. An even greater hindrance to the advance of special branches of surgery has been the powerful inżuence of historic tradition per petuated by the textbooks and teaching which are provided for medical students in the ordinary schools. Even the most recent textbooks of general surgery rarely reżect the best practice of the day among good surgeons. Often their teaching is ludicrously inadequate, and any student who gives modern replies to ancient questions runs the risk of being rejected by his examiners. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.