The Fiske Fund Prize Essay for 189O. 



THE 



SURGICAL TREATMENT 



OF 



WOUNDS AND OBSTRUCTION 



OP THE 



INTESTINES. 



BY 



EDWARD MARTIN, A.M., M.D., 



Clinical Professor of Genito-Urinary Diseases, Instructor in Operative Sur- 

 gery, and Lecturer on Minor Surgery, University of Pennsylvania; 

 Surgeon to the Howard Hospital ; Assistant Surgeon to the 

 University Hospital, etc. etc. 

 AND 



HOBART A. HARE, M.D., 



Professor of Therapeutics, Jefferson Medical College ; Attending Physician 

 to St. Agnes' Hospital. 



ILLUSTRATED. 



Price, Cloth $2.00, Net. 



" In presenting this Essay upon the Surgical Treatment of Wounds 

 and Obstruction of the Intestines to the Trustees of the Fiske Fund, 

 it is proper to outline the scope of our work, and to state "briefly the 

 facts and lines of original research upon which our conclusions are 

 based. For over two years we have made experiments in the labo- 

 ratory upon these subjects, and have carried out in every detail all 

 the methods and modifications of operations that have been published 

 or which have occurred to us in the course of our own studies. . . . 

 In addition to the original work involved in studying so important 

 a branch of surgery as the one before us (and which will be found 

 represented, graphically, in part at least by a number of tracings), 

 we have collected and placed before the reader what we believe to be 

 the fullest statistics yet collected upon gunshot wounds of the abdo- 

 men." EXTRACT FROM PREFACE. 



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