Surgery

Chirurgery. Formerly that branch of medicine coi cerned with manual operations under the direction c the physician. The scope of the word is no widened, and is so bound up with general medicii that a strict and succinct definition is impo ible. I strumental and manual operative work is still t! chief idea, and, so far as it is related to diseases cor monly or po ibly requiring operative procedure, sv. gery usually includes the treatment of systemic abnc malities. The term, as limited to a special of medical science, as obstetric, gynecologic, aim ophthalmic, etc.,division is growing into disuse, while, same time, the of these specialties has at n;t'j rowed the field of work of surgery as now common understood. The surgeon has recouped himself the inclusion in his department of many subjects n strictly requiring operative treatment, such as inflaij mation, fever, microbiology, syphilis, etc., etc. ' Antiseptic, the application of antiseptic methods i the treatment of wounds. S., Conservative, me;. S., Military, that pertaining gunshot wounds and other injuries peculiar to milita life. S., Minor, includes the le er surgical ope i tions, bandaging, the making and application of splin dre ings and sutures, counter-irritation, cautcrizatu blood-letting, vaccination, etc. S., Operative, to the performance of operations. S., Orthoped the remedy of deformities by manual and instrumen measures. S., Plastic, repair of absent or defect i ti ue by transference of ti ue from another part person. See Transplantation , Autoplasty, Rhu plasty, etc. S., Railway, deals with injuries receiv on railways. S., Veterinary, the surgery of domes animals.