ELEMENTS OF SURGERY: BY ROBERT LISTON, SURGEON TO THE NORTH-LONDON HOSPITAL, PROFESSOR Of CLINICAL SURGERY, ETC., ETC., ETC. FROM THE SECOND LONDON EDITION, WITH COPIOUS NOTES AND ADDITIONS, BY SAMUEL D. GROSS, M.D., PROFESSOR OF SURGERY IN THE LOUISVILLE MEDICAL INSTITUTE, SURGEON TO THE LOUISVILLE MARINE HOSPITAL, ETC., ETC. Illustrated WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS. Philadelphia: ED. BARRINGTON & GEO. D. HASWELL. NEW YORK—J. & H.G. LANGLEY: CHARLESTON, S. C.—WM. H. BERRETT: RICHMOND, VA.—SMITH, DRINKER & MORRIS: LOUISVILLE, KY.—JAMES MAXWELL, JR. 1842. [Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1842, by BARRINGTON & HASWELL, in the Clerk’s office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.] TO WILLARD PARKER, M. D., Professor of Surgery in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of New York, THIS EDITION OF MR. LISTON’S WORK Is Inscribed, AS A TESTIMONIAL OF RESPECT FOR HIS UNTIRING ZEAL IN SURGICAL PURSUITS, AND OF ESTEEM FOR HIS PRIVATE VIRTUES, BY HIS FRIEND AND FORMER COLLEAGUE, THE EDITOR. PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION. The character of Mr. Liston’s work is too well established to render it necessary for me to say anything in commendation of it. As an outline of surgical science, which is all that can be claimed for it, it is unrivalled in the English language. Written in a bold and graphic style, the distinguished author never hesitates to express his opinion, frankly and fearlessly, of what his judgment and experience have led him to disapprove. In this, as well as in some other particulars, he reminds one forcibly of that great and eccentric surgeon, John Bell. There is no cringing to this man or that, no doubtful or equivocal sentiment, no attempt to theorise or speculate; on the contrary, he comes right out, and clearly tells us what he means. His work, full of vigour and freshness, contains more originality than any other similar publication that has been issued for a long time from the British press. The hand of a master is discernible in every page; and, notwithstanding an occasional incongruity, or _outré_ expression, it is impossible to read it without feeling that it is the production of a great mind, thoroughly acquainted with the subject on which he treats.