The surgical anatomy and operative surgery of the middle ear
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The surgical anatomy and operative surgery of the middle ear
The surgical anatomy and operative surgery of the middle ear
The
surgical anatomy and operative surgery of the middle ear is written by A. Broca,
Surgeon of the trousseau hospital, supernumerary professor to the faculty of
medicine of Paris. This book is translated to English by Macleod Yearsley, F. R.
C. S., Surgeon to the Royal Ear Hospital, London.
This book
explains Operations carried out for the correction of deformities and defects,
repair of injuries, and diagnosis and cure of certain diseases.
Approximately
100 years ago, after the first diagnostic laparoscopy and subsequent
developments, the adventure began with laparoscopic appendectomy and
cholecystectomy and reached a point where any surgical procedure could be
performed easily. This book is prepared by surgeons who are very successful in
their field.
A hernia is the exit of an organ, such as the bowel, through the wall
of the cavity in which it normally resides.The surgical treatment of hernia
requires an extensive knowledge and technical ability.The present book is
designed to focus on specific topics and problems which a general surgeon
dealing with groin hernia is very likely to face during his practice. Its aim is
to provide the readers with informative and practical indications to understand,
diagnose, and manage patients presenting these situations.
Joseph Bell was a famous
Scottish lecturer at the medical school of the University of Edinburgh in the
19th century. His aim has been to describe as simply as possible those
operations which are most likely to prove useful, and especially those which,
from their nature, admit of being practised on the dead body.