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Excerpt from The Treatment of Wounds: Its Principles and Practice, General and Special In the present work I have attempted to state, first, the principles upon which the treatment of wounds should be based; then, to describe the means which are available to the surgeon for satisfying the demands of these principles; and, lastly, to point out the particular modifications which the peculiarities of special wounds may require. In the first part of the work, the physiology of repair, and the character of the influences which are capable of disturbing physiological repair necessarily receive attention. A knowledge of these must form the ground-work of all rational wound-treatment. As the result of the more exact methods of research of recent years, while much chaff, consisting of half truths and incorrectly interpreted observations, has accumulated, some facts have undeniably been established, in the domain of physiology and pathology, which will stand the winnowing process of time and experience, and will remain as permanent truths that will always require the recognition of intelligent students of Nature. Not the least of these arc those which have appeared in the special fields of wound-repair and wound-disturbance. These I have endeavored to state in the following pages with an earnest conviction of their truth, and of the great importance attaching to their becoming generally understood and accepted as working-facts. It is not necessary that one should blindly follow the theories or the methods of any one man; nor, indeed, is it just to select any one name as the special representative of the present state of the science or the art of wound-treatment. 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.