Medical Publications of F. A. Davis, Philadelphia. 



Principles of Surgery. 



By N. Senn. M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Practice of Siirjorerv and Clinical 

 Surgery in Rush Medical College, Chicago, 111.; Professor of Surgery in the 

 Chicago Polyclinic; Attending Surgeon to the IMilwaukee Hospital ;"Consulting 

 Surgeon to the A[ilwaukee County Hospital and to the Milwaukee County 

 Insane Asylum. 



This work, by one of America's greatest surgeons, is thoroughly complete; 

 its clearness and brevity of statement are among its conspicuous merits. The 

 author's long, able, and conscientious researches in every direction in this 

 important field are a guarantee, of unusual trustworthiness, tliat every branch of 

 the subject is treated authoritatively and in such a manner as to bring the 

 greatest gain in knowledge to tlie Practitioner and Student. 



In one handsome Royal Octavo volume, with 109 fine Wood-Engravings 

 and 624 pages. 



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OPII«iIOPiiS A?il> CRITICIS9IS1 



Stephen .Smith, M.D., Professor of Clini- 

 cal Siua;erj' Medical Department University 

 of the City of New York, writes : — " I have 

 examined the work with great satisfaction, 

 and repjard it as a most valuable addition to 

 American Surgical literature. There has long 

 been great need of a work on the princiiJles of 

 surgery which would fully illustrate the pres- 

 ent advanced stale of knowledge of the various 

 subiects embraced in this volume. The work 

 seems to me to meet this want admirably." 



Lewis a. Sayre, M.U., Professor Ortho- 

 paedic Surgery Bellevue Hospital Medical 

 College, New York, writes : — " My Dear Doctor 

 Senn : i'our very valuable work on surgery, 

 sent to me some time since, I have studied 

 with great .satisfaction and improvement. I 

 congratulate you most heartily on having 

 produced the most classical and practical 

 work on surgery yet published." 



Frank J. Lutz, M.D., St. Louis, Mo., says : 

 —"It seems incredible that those who pretend 

 to teach have done without such a guide 

 before, and I do not understand how our stu- 

 dents succeeded in mastering the pruiciples 

 of modern surgery by attempting to read our 

 obsolete text-books. American surgery should 

 feel proud of the production, and the present 

 generation of surgeons owe you a debt of 

 gratitude." 



W. W. Dawson, M.D., Cincinnati, Ohio, 

 writes :— "It is a work of great merit, and one 

 greatly needed. Reliable Surgery must be 

 fouuded upon correct principles." 



Wm. Osi.er, M.D., The Johns Hopkins 

 Hospital, Baltimore, sa>s :— '■'Vou certainly 

 have covered the ground'thoroughly and well, 

 and with a thoroughness 1 do not know of in 

 any similar work. I should think it would 

 prove a great boon to the students and also to 

 very many teachers." 



J. C.Warren, M.D., Boston, Mass., writes : 

 —"The book comes at an opportune moment ; 

 the old text-books on Surgical Pathology are 

 out of date, and you are tilling practically a 

 new field." ' 



The work is systematic and compact, with- 

 out a fact omitted or a sentence too much, 

 and it not only makes instructive but fasci- 

 nating readuig. A couspicuotis merit of Senn's 

 work is his method, his persistent and tireless 

 search through original investigations for 

 additions to knowledge, and the practical 

 character of his discoveries. This combina- 

 tion of the discoverer and the practical man 

 gives a special value to all his work, and is 



one of the secrets of his fame. No physician 

 in any line of practice (tan afford to be without 

 Senn's " Principles of Surgery." — 2Vie Review 

 of Insanity and Nervous JJishaacs. 



Everj^ chapter is a mine of information 

 containing all the recent advances on the sub- 

 jects presented in such a systematic, instruc- 

 tive and entertaining style that the reader 

 will not willingly lay it "aside, but will read 

 and re-read witirpleasureand i^roflt. — Kansas 

 Medical Journal. 



It is a most admirable work in all respects, 

 and should be in the hands of every senior 

 student, general practitioner, and special 

 surgeon. — Canadian Practitioner. 



After perusing this work on several differ- 

 ent occasions we have come to the conclusion 

 that it is a remarkable work by a man of un- 

 usual ability. We have never'seen anything 

 like it before. The author seems to have had 

 a very large personal experience, which is 

 freely made use of in the text, l)esides which 

 he is familiar with almost all tliat has been 

 written in English and German on the above 

 topics. We congratulate Dr. Senn upon the 

 manner in which he has accomplished his 

 task. — 27ie Canada Medical Record. 



The work is exceedingly practical, as the 

 chapters on the treatment of the various con- 

 ditions considered are based on sound deduc- 

 tions, are complete, and easily carried <JUt by 

 any painstaking surgeon. Asepsis and anti- 

 sepsis are exhaustively treated. All in all, the 

 book is a most excellent one. and deserves a 

 place in every well-selected library. — Medical 

 Record. 



It will prove exceedingly valuable in the 

 diffusion of more thorough knowledge of the 

 subject-matter among English-spealiing sur- 

 geons. As in the case of all his work, he has 

 done this in a truly admirable manner. No- 

 where is there room to criticise the accuracy 

 of Senn's statements, and everywhere is there 

 evidence of a thoroii.gh stu<iy of the best 

 work of the most eminent men. The book 

 throughout is worthy of the highest praise. 

 It should be adopted as a text-book in all of 

 our schools. — University Medical Magazine. 



The principles of surgery, as expounded by 

 Dr. Senn, are such as to place the student in 

 the independent position <if evolving from 

 them methods of treatment ; the master of 

 the principles readily becomes equally a 

 master of practice. And this, of course, is 

 really the whole purpose of the volume.— 

 Weekly Medical Review. -^ 



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