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Excerpt from The Surgical Assistant: A Manual for Students, Practitioners, Hospital, Internes and Nurses
Surgical text-books, even those that deal most minutely with operative technics, make but scant reference to the duties of the surgeon's assistants. And yet the skill of the assistants is scarcely less important than the skill of the sur geon himself. In an operation the surgeon must depend, not only upon the experience and the caution of the anesthetist, but also upon the familiarity with aseptic details, the fore sight and adaptability, and the coolness in emergency of those who aid him in the mechanical procedure itself.
If we except a brochure by Dr. Carl Lauenstein Der Assistenzarzt - Which in neither scope nor execution has anything in common with this book, nothing known to the author has been written upon this important subject. The volume he presents is then, a pioneer, and as such, no doubt, has its shortcomings.
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