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D. APPLE TON & CO.'S MEDICAL WORKS. 



THE RULES OF ASEPTIC AND ANTISEPTIC SUR- 

 GERY. A Practical Treatise for the Use of Students and the General 

 Practitioner. By ARPAD G. GERSTER, M. D., Professor of Surgery at the 

 New York Polyclinic ; Visiting Surgeon to the German Hospital and to 

 Mount Sinai Hospital, New York. 



8vo. Illustrated with Two Hundred and Forty-eight Fine Engravings. 

 Cloth, $5.00; sheep, $6.00. 



The following are the points of excel- 

 lence in this work : 



It deals only with matters of practical 

 interest to, and questions that are likely 

 to arise daily in the work of the practicing 

 physician. Its scope is a terse yet clear 

 exposition of the principles governing 

 modern operative surgery. It enters into 

 the practical details of all the varying con- 

 ditions of the application of the antiseptic 

 method as brought about by emergencies. 

 Every important prin- 

 ciple is clearly illus- 

 trated by citations from 

 actual cases occurring 

 in the author's prac- 

 tice. 



It is not intended 

 to take the place of any 

 text-book on surgery, 

 but rather to supply a 

 need which exists in 

 every work on the sub- 

 ject in the English lan- 

 guage, by furnishing 

 information on the sub- 

 ject of Asepsis and 

 Antisepsis, with which 

 It is, in short, a supple- 



Fig. 147. Necrototny of tibia. 



Leg placed on a hard cushion, 

 from the right. 



Irrigator playing 



no book on surgery deals to an extent demanded by modern methods, 

 ment to all surgical text-books. 



The illustrations are typo-gra- 

 vures, made from photographic 

 negatives taken from life, and are 

 marvels of beauty, artistic elegance, 

 and fidelity, each illustration being 

 a faithful representation, by the 

 camera, of the details of the appli- 

 cation of all important antiseptic 

 dressings and apparatus, approach- 

 ing nearer to an actual demonstra- 

 tion than has ever before been at- 

 tempted to be done in any medical 

 work. With the exception of a few 

 bacteriological illustrations taken from Koch, 

 Rosenbach, and Bumm, the illustrations are 

 from negatives made in the operating-room, and 

 are of a character now for the first time em- 

 ployed in a medical work. 



The work has been adopted by the Medical 

 Department of the United States Army. 



"This work of three hundred and twenty-five 

 pages occupies a field which, though hinted at in 

 other treatises on surgery, has never as satisfac- 

 torily been presented, and as such will be welcomed 

 by the entire medical fraternity. . . . Typograph- 

 ically, the volume is perfect, and no physician, 

 whether he has made surgery a matter of special 

 investigation or net, will ever regret having pur- 

 chased this work, which is the matured thought of 



Fig. 172. Dressing for mammary abscess, or empyema. 



a careful and scholarly medical scientist." Ameri- 

 can Medical Digest. 



"... Just such books as this are needed to ex- 

 pound the principles of asepsis, while demonstrat- 

 ing trie methods by which it may be attained. . . . 

 It' is a difficult matter to find anything in this 

 magnificent book that may be adversely criticised." 

 Pittsburg Medical Review. 



