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Excerpt from War Surgery of the Nervous System, 1917: A Digest of the Important Medical Journals and Books Published During the European War This manual represents an attempt to collect, digest, and arrange in orderly form, the literature of war surgery of the skull, brain, spine, spinal cord, meninges, and peripheral nerves, from August, 1914, to August, 1017. The sources of supply were the English, German, and French weekly, monthly, and quarterly medical journals, and those foreign treatises dealing with war surgery as practiced and observed during the present conflict. The scheme adopted has been based largely on the plan of the collective abstract. It was thought wise to furnish fairly full abstracts, in order both to avoid unwarrantable dogmatism, and also in order to allow the reader free scope of personal interpretation. For this latter reason also, the editor has refrained both from extended critique and from attempting generalized conclusions, by way of summary. No abstracts on the subject of Roentgenology have been furnished for the reason that special schools are equipping men for this work. The following are satisfactory references: A.G. Straw, Arch. of Radiol, and Electrother, May, 19 T, p. 393; W.Oram, Arch. of Radiol, and Electrother, February, 1917, p.277; H.E. Gamlem, Arch. of Radiol. and Electrother, November.1916, p.175; Gage, Arch. of Radiol, and Electrother, June, 1917, p.1; E. Skinner, Amer. Jour. Roent. , June, 1917, p.350; George H. Makins, Brit. Jour, of Surg., June 16, 1917, p.803. Since the war hospitals may not be well supplied with books, we have introduced the abstracts with selections from standard textbooks, so that the reader of the manual might be always in close touch with fundamentals. For the brain, we have used the chapters from Keens Surgery written by Dr. Harvey Cushing, and chapters from; Dr. Isaac H. Jones's forthcoming book on Equilibrium and Vertigo. For the spine we have used selected chapters from Dr. C.A. Elsberg's book on Diseases of the Spinal Cord and its Membranes, and Dr. Charles H. Frazier's volume (in press) on Surgery of the Spine, and for peripheral nerves we have selected the chapter on peripheral nerves, written by Dr. Gordon M. Holmes for Osler's Modern Medicine. The use of the phrase "war surgery" must be taken with a good deal of qualification, lest one fall into the error of thinking of this type of work as separate and distinct from the surgery of civil life. 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.