PREFACE ΤΟ THE SECOND EDITION. IN the first edition of this book an attempt was made to offer an impartial account of surgery which should deserve to be described by both Listerians and non-Listerians as being, upon the whole, unprejudiced with regard to the chief surgical question of the epoch. I am convinced that in so doing I made a mistake. Antisepticism and asepticism constitute so essential a part of modern surgery that no choice remains to me except that between a series of incongruous statements on the one hand, and, on the other, a consistent work written from the point of view of a thoroughgoing believer in Listerism. I have, of course, endeavoured to bring the new edition up to date--a task the difficulty of which will be recognised by every one acquainted with the surgical literature of the day. Such persons will not regard too severely deficiencies in this respect. Mr. Alfred Street has revised the proofs of this edition. as well as of the first. Mr. C. H. Taylor has corrected the Index of Names: |