Physiologic Principles of Surgery

Hematology Physiologic, Pathophysiologic, and Clinical Principles

Physiologic considerations in the surgery of infants.

THE physiologic responses to surgical situations encountered in infancy and early childhood differ from those expected in adult patients. As the age of a child increases, his physiology approaches that of an adult and conversely the younger (or at times the smaller) the pediatric patient, the greater is his variation in physiologic response. The differences are not solely quantitative, and many...

Principles of Intraventricular Surgery

Principles of Surgery

It would appear as if the author was unaware of Besredka's work on sensitized living vaccines when he writes :?" The use of living bacteria, if they could be so attenuated as to be harmless, would accomplish it (raising of opsonic power), but would be manifestly objectionable and subject to almost prohibitive limitations." In the chapter on " The Process of. Healing" regeneration of bone is som...

Principles of Surgery

surgeons. The work is distinctly a new departure in surgical literature. It deals with the " fundamental principles of the art and science of surgery," according to the lights of modern research. The healing of wounds and the behaviour of diseased tissues are studied from every possible point of view, both as regards special tissues and special processes. The influence of bacteria on wounds rec...