Dr. THOMAS CETLER'S Popular Surgery is not intended to make
every one his own or his friend's surgeon, but merely to instruct us how to act as locum tenens until professional assistance arrives. Should a toper or a waiter cut the main artery of the thigh in breaking a bottle whilst attempting to draw an obstinate cork, be explains the best mode of saving life by stopping the rush of blood until a surgeon can be got. If a person is taken out of the water seeming dead, he directs the means to be pursued in endeavouring to restore animation. If a limb is broken, he tells us how to place the patient in the safest and easiest position, as well as how to construct a litter. And so on with regard
to all the various accidents that flesb is liable to. The book is in a great measure a translation from the French, but the translator has made large additions and notes.
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