Excerpt from Surgical Therapeutics and Operative Technique, Vol. 1
The English edition of Doyens treatise on operative surgery is taken from the French edition, which comprises five volumes. It has been considered more convenient to present the English edition in three volumes, although none of the French text has been omitted.
Doyen's great work has had a wide success in French-speaking countries. The originality of the authors work, and the general interest shown by the innumerable visitors to his great institute in Paris, led to a general desire for an English edition of his textbook. This was in course of preparation when the war broke out.
I was requested by Dr. Doyen in 1916 to complete the work of translation, and to undertake the heavy responsibility of preparing these volumes for the press.
On carefully examining the work, a certain proportion of which had already been translated by Dr. John Knott of Dublin, I found that portions of the first two volumes were no longer in accordance with the present methods as practised at the Institute Doyen, and a long association with the author as assistant and chef de clinique decided me to persuade the author to recast part of his introduction, also to rewrite the important chapters relating to the surgery of bloodvessels and nerves, and the transfusion of blood.
The treatment of accessible cancers by electro-coagulation has also undergone considerable modification since its original introduction, and the whole article had to be rewritten. It became evident that an entirely new edition of the work was necessary. This was completed shortly before the authors sudden and lamented death.
The English edition, therefore, is not a translation of the existing French edition, but is taken from the material from which the second French edition mil be compiled, and contains the latest developments in war surgery and surgical treatment in general.
The first volume contains much introductory matter.
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