Editore: Lea & Febiger, Philadelphia, PA, 1926
Da: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Presumed First Edition, First printing. 718 pages. Ex-library with usual library markings. Front board weak, restrengthened with glue. Illustrated with 324 Engravings. Includes Preface and Introduction. Also includes Chapters on The Protective Forces of Nature; Classification of Wounds; General Treatment of Wounds; Technicque of Emergency Surgery; Antiseptics; Bacteriology of Wounds; Gas Gangrene; Wounds of Blood vessels; Burns; Shock; Cranial Injuries; Wounds of the Face and Neck; Wounds of the Thorax; Wounds of the Abdomen; Wounds of the Bladder, Perineal Region and External Genitalia; Spinal Injuries; Wounds of the Peripheral Nerves; Fractures; Dislocations; Compound Fractures and Bone Wounds not Involving Joints: Joint Wounds; Amputations; Practical Splints for Emergency Surgery; Roentgenology in Emergency Surgery; The Medico-Legal Aspect of Emergency Surgery. Dr. de Tarnowsky also authored Medical War Manual No. 7 and Military Surgery of the Zone of the Advance. Among the most notable improvements in the treatment of traumatic wounds, directly attributable to World War experience, may be mentioned accurate localizing methods for the safe and easy removal of foreign bodies; substitution of sense of touch by direct visualization under the fluroscope; estimation of cranial wounds in terms of neurological disturbances instead of bone lesions; immediate attack of intra-articular lesions with removal of foreign bodies; the phenomenally successful extension of intrathoracic surgery, maxillo-facial reconstruction, and plastic surgery; abandonment of the suprapubic puncture and drainage for radical exploratory laparotomy and immediate repair of visceral lesions. Never before has there been such an opportunity to study the protective forces of Nature, to master a technicque based on our present knowledge and conception of physiology, so that the surgeon could work hand-in-hand with Nature and not against it.