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Excerpt from Surgical Nursing and Technique a Book for Nurses, Dressers, House Surgeons, Etc The second edition of this book was sold out in half the time that it took to dispose of the first. This is gratifying when it is remembered that it occurred during a time when surgical effort was directed to channels of antiseptic rather than aseptic surgery, to acquiring knowledge of the technique required to sterilize wounds already septic rather than of preventing the access of infection to wounds, which is what this work is designed to deal with. The first was the goal of the treatment of the wounds of war made by the enemy; the second is the goal of the treatment of the wounds of peace made by the surgeons knife. The first deals with cure, the second with prevention. Both require as their foundation a sound knowledge of the causes and means of introduction of infection. Neither can be strictly separated from the other. An intimate knowledge of sepsis, with all its horrors and dangers and attendant disabilities, acquired during the late war should make aseptic technique, which can now happily come into its own again, more thorough and exacting if possible than ever it was before. This emboldens me to place yet a third edition of this book, dealing chiefly with modern surgical aseptic technique, before my readers. A feature of the second edition, noticed by almost every reviewer, was my strong condemnation of the long hours worked by nurses in hospitals, and the inadequate remuneration they received. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may