Surgery

Abstract

years ago, were set forth in an " Advertisement," in which, despite the title of the Journal, surgery occupied a comparatively inconspicuous position. Those who directed the policy of the Journal requested their correspondents " to cultivate Medical Surgery, to improve the Operations of Surgery, and to simplify its apparatus." We can scarcely hazard an opinion as to the precise significance of the term " medical surgery " in the minds of those who used it; but, from the fact that it was the only field which they suggested to be in special need of cultivation, it is apparent that they considered it in a somewhat backward condition as compared with the other ancillary branches of medicine. That the operations of surgery left room for improvement, and that its appliances