W. B. SAUNDERS ILLUSTRATED 



For Sale by Subscription. 



AN AMERICAN TEXT-BOOK OF SURGERY. Edited by WIL- 

 LIAM W. KEEN, M. D., LL.D., and J. WILLIAM WHITE, M. D., PH. D. 

 Forming one handsome royal-octavo volume of 1250 pages (10x7 inches), 

 with 500 wood-cuts in text, and 37 colored and half-tone plates, many of 

 them engraved from original photographs and . drawings furnished by the 

 authors. Prices : Cloth, $7.00 ; Sheep or Half-Morocco, $8.00 net. 



SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED. 



The want of a text-book which could be used by the practitioner and at the 

 same time be recommended to the medical student has been deeply felt, especially 

 by teachers of surgery ; hence, when it was sug- 

 gested to a number of these that it would be 

 well to unite in preparing a text-book of this 

 description, great unanimity of opinion was 

 found to exist, and the gentlemen below named 

 gladly consented to join in its production. 



Especial prominence has been given to Surg- 

 ical Bacteriology, a feature which is believed to 

 be unique in a surgical text-book in the English 

 language. Asepsis and Antisepsis have received 

 particular attention. The text is brought well 

 up to date in such important branches as cere- 

 bral, spinal, intestinal, and pelvic surgery, the 

 most important and newest operations in these 

 departments being described and illustrated. 



The text of the entire book has been sub- 

 mitted to all the authors for their mutual criti- 

 cism and revision an idea in book-making 

 that is entirely new and original. The book as 

 a whole, therefore, expresses on all the im- 

 portant surgical topics of the day the consensus 

 of opinion of the eminent surgeons who have joined in its preparation. 



One of the most attractive features of the book is its illustrations. Very many 

 of them are original and faithful reproductions of photographs taken directly from 

 patients or from specimens, and the modern improvements in the art of engraving 

 have enabled the publisher to produce illustrations which it is believed are superior 

 to those in any similar work. 



CONTRIBUTORS: 



Specimen Illustration (largely reduced). 



Dr. Charles H. Burnett, Philadelphia. 

 Phineas S. Conner, Cincinnati. 

 Frederic S. Dennis, New York. 

 William W. Keen, Philadelphia. 

 Charles B. Nancrede, Ann Arbor, Mich. 

 Roswell Park, Buffalo, N. Y. 

 Lewis S. Pilcher, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Dr. Nicholas Senn, Chicago. 



Francis J. Shepherd, Montreal, Canada. 



Lewis A. Stimson, New York. 



William Thomson, Philadelphia. 



J. Collins Warren, Boston. 



J. William White, Philadelphia. 



" If this text-book is a fair reflex of the present position of American surgery, we must admit 

 it is of a very high order of merit, and that English surgeons will have to look very carefully to 

 their laurels if they are to preserve a position in the van of surgical practice." London Lancet. 



" The soundness of the teachings contained in this work needs no stronger guarantee than is 

 afforded by the names of its authors." Medical News, Philadelphia. 



