OPERATIVE SURGERY IN AMERICA

IT is not intended that the present article shall be a strictly technical exposition of American surgery. Still less is it purposed to laud American surgery, or to hold it up as something to be imitated by English surgeons. During a recent brief visit to England, however, I noticed certain important...

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Published in:The Nineteenth century and after : a monthly review 1901-10, Vol.50 (296), p.598-606
Main Author: Nesbitt, Robert Henry
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Language:English
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Summary:IT is not intended that the present article shall be a strictly technical exposition of American surgery. Still less is it purposed to laud American surgery, or to hold it up as something to be imitated by English surgeons. During a recent brief visit to England, however, I noticed certain important general points of difference between the practice in most of the London hospitals, and in the American hospitals with which I am familiar. I refer especially to the evident dependence upon antiseptics here, rather than upon that extreme surgical cleanliness or asepsis which the American is accustomed to associate with his art.
ISSN:2043-5304