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Chapter 2: PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
By Berkeley Hill
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This practical manual provides concise, illustrated instructions for applying bandages and surgical apparatus, with chapters on materials, operator technique, bandaging of specific body regions, strapping methods, and management of fractures and dislocations of head, trunk, and limbs. It describes common turns and splints, approaches to immobilisation and extension, and offers procedures for dressing wounds, supporting stumps, and using elastic and plaster appliances. An appendix supplies lists of preparations, instruments, and items recommended for sick-room and operating-room use, presented as checklists to help students and practitioners refresh practical skills.

LONDON:
BRADBURY, EVANS, AND CO., PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.

In laying a Second Edition before the public, I have decided not to alter the scope of this little work, but simply to endeavour to increase its usefulness, by remedying omissions, and by adding new instructions where such appeared desirable. I have ventured to insert, as an Appendix, lists of the preparations requisite for the sick room and for the operating room before the ordinary operations of surgery are performed; also, lists of the instruments and appliances requisite, or possibly useful, in performing forty-nine different operations on the human body. It is hoped that, by giving the surgeon a list, such as most operators draw up in manuscript for their private use, whereby they may check their preparations before proceeding to operate, some trouble may be saved.

14, Weymouth Street, W.
November, 1869.