1000 SURGICAL SUGGESTIONS PRACTICAL BREVITIES IN DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT BY WALTER M. BRICKNER, B.S., M.D. New York. Adjunct Surgeon, Mount Sinai Hospital; ELI MOSCHCOWITZ, M.D., HAROLD NEUHOF, M.D. Associate Editors, American Journal of Surgery. FOURTH AMERICAN EDITION New York, U. S. A. 92 William Street Copyright, 1911 SURGERY PUBLISHING COMPANY First Edition, "Surgical Suggestions," 1906. Second Edition, "500 Surgical Suggestions," 1907. Third Edition, "700 Surgical Suggestions," 1909. German Edition, "700 Diagnostisch-therapeutische Ratschläge für die chirurgische Praxis." Translation by Dr. Ernst Schümann, 1910. 133 384 1911 PREFACE TO FOURTH EDITION. "Surgical Suggestions" has quadrupled in size since its first edition in 1906. The continued demand for the exhausted issue of "700 Surgical Suggestions," its translation into German, and the flattering comments of journal reviews have stimulated the publication of this enlarged edition. The previous "Suggestions" have been revised some altered, some rearranged and a few omitted. Three hundred have been added, many of them relating to recent surgical innovations. As before, these suggestions make no effort at completeness and, with some exceptions, they are offered with no pretensions to originality of observation. They are, however, based on experiences in our own practice or on those noted in the practice of our colleagues. If among these thousand therapeutic hints and diagnostic "wrinkles" each reader finds but a few helpful "tips" that are new to him, this little book will have continued to serve a useful purpose. W. M. B. 30 West 92d Street, New York, March, 1911. 54309 PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION. The "Surgical Suggestions" published during the past year in the successive issues of the American Journal of Surgery have been extensively quoted in medical journals throughout the United States and Canada. This has suggested to us that their arrangement in logical order, and in a concise form, might prove of value. These practical brevities make no pretensions to completeness. They are merely observations taken here and there from our own surgical experiences. April, 1906. W. M. B. |