. A text-book of animal physiology, with introductory chapters on general biology and a full treatment of reproduction ... Physiology, Comparative. taxed " There is ilo department of surgery where the ingenuity and skill of the surgeon are more severely ™.ed than when required to repair" the dama;,'e sustained by the loss of parts, or to remove the disng- urement produced by destructive disease or violence, or to remedy the deformities of congenital mal- formation. The results obtained in such cases within the last half-century are among the most satis- factory achievements of modem
. A text-book of animal physiology, with introductory chapters on general biology and a full treatment of reproduction ... Physiology, Comparative. taxed " There is ilo department of surgery where the ingenuity and skill of the surgeon are more severely ™.ed than when required to repair" the dama;,'e sustained by the loss of parts, or to remove the disng- urement produced by destructive disease or violence, or to remedy the deformities of congenital mal- formation. The results obtained in such cases within the last half-century are among the most satis- factory achievements of modem suigery. The term 'Eeparative Surgery' chosen as the title _ot this volume, thoueh it may, in a comprehensive sense, be applied to the treatment ot a great variety oi lesions to which the body is liable, is, however, restricted in this work exclusively^ to what has laiien under the author's own observation, and has been subjected to the test of experience m his own practice. It largely embraces the treatment of lesions of the face, a region in wWch plastic surgeiy hnds its most frequent and important applications. Another and no less important class of lesions wiU also be toma to have occupied a large share of the author's attention, viz., cicatricial contractions iollowmg burns. While these cases have a very strong claim upon our commiseration, and should stimulate us, as sui- geons, to the greatest efforts for their relief, they have too often in the past been dismissed as hopelessly incurable. The satisfactory results obtained in the eases reported in this volume will encourage ower surgeons, we trust, to resort with greater hopefulness in the ftiture to operative interference. Aocmacj of description and clearness of statement have been aimed at in the following pages; and it, 'J.^'" ™- deavor to attain this important end, the author has incurred the reproach ot tediousness, the aimouiiy of the task must be his ;—-EWtoc* from Please note tha
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