Chapter I: Preface: ix

I INTRODUCTION 1

II SURGICAL BACTERIOLOGY 6

III ASEPSIS AND ANTISEPSIS 18

IV INFLAMMATION 28

V WOUNDS AND CONTUSIONS 39

VI HEMORRHAGE 51

VII BURNS, FROST BITE, ETC. 56

VIII FISTULAE; FISSURES; SINUSES; ABSCESSES; FURUNCLES; ULCERS 64

IX DISEASES OF JOINTS—THE SEROUS AND SYNOVIAL MEMBRANES 82

X DISEASES OF THE BONES 99

XI DISEASES AND INJURIES OF THE ARTERIES AND GANGRENE 118

XII DISEASES OF VEINS 125

XIII SPECIAL FORMS OF INFLAMMATION 130

XIV VERRUCA (WART), CALLOSITY, HELOMA (CORN OR CLAVUS),
DISEASES OF THE NAILS—INGROWN NAIL 139