Project Gutenberg 2015-12-08 Public domain in the USA. 126 Liston, Robert 1794 1847 Gross, Samuel D. (Samuel David) 1805 1884 Gross, S. D. (Samuel David) Gross, Samuel David 06046663 Elements of Surgery Produced by deaurider, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Elements of Surgery" by Robert Liston is a scientific publication written in the early 19th century. This work serves as an outline of surgical science, detailing key principles, practices, and the nature of surgical conditions, with a focus on inflammation, its consequences, and management. The text presents a pragmatic view on surgery, emphasizing the importance of practical knowledge and judgment for practitioners. The opening portion of the book introduces the topic of inflammation, establishing it as a crucial phenomenon that underlines many surgical conditions. It provides a detailed explanation of inflammation's characteristics, such as redness, swelling, pain, and heat, while delineating the distinction between healthy and morbid inflammation. Furthermore, Liston addresses various causes and outcomes of inflammation, laying the groundwork for understanding its significance in the surgical context. The introductory section emphasizes the necessity for surgeons to grasp both the physiological responses involved in inflammation and its treatment strategies, setting the stage for the more intricate topics that will follow. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Surgery RD Text Browsing: Health & Medicine 2189879 2189545 2024-09-21T08:26:53.170439 2023-09-22T05:49:45.756151 text/html text/html 2185218 2015-12-08T14:08:30 text/html; charset=utf-8 2479961 2015-12-08T14:08:34 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 2751553 2024-09-21T08:27:14.007369 application/epub+zip 2784355 2024-09-21T08:26:56.674419 application/epub+zip 832489 2024-09-21T08:26:54.951414 application/epub+zip 3289484 2024-09-21T08:27:27.588250 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 3189873 2024-09-21T08:27:12.053303 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1253138 2022-09-23T03:55:54.268028 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 2062210 2062009 2024-09-21T08:26:50.367434 2023-09-22T05:49:42.602138 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 2062462 2015-12-08T14:08:28 text/plain; charset=utf-8 691895 2015-12-08T14:08:34 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 18151 2024-09-21T08:27:27.768252 application/rdf+xml 12157 2024-09-21T08:26:55.127403 image/jpeg 2658 2024-09-21T08:26:55.038408 image/jpeg 2521629 2024-09-21T08:26:53.601454 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog