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Title: Transactions of the Southern Surgical and Gynecological Association
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Southern Surgical and Gynecological Association (U.S.)
Subjects: General Surgery Gynecology
Publisher: (S.l.) : The Association
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
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Fig. 18.—Copperplate from Yasorum Lymphaticorum, Mascagni, 1787.
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Fig. 19.—Colored lithograph from Anatomy of the Arteries, Quain, 1844. THE POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS INABDOMINAL SURGERY. By C. M. Rosser, M.D.,Dallas, Texas. The purpose of this paper is to consider the untowardconditions which with more or less frequency supervene, andwe must include those incidents, accidents, and errors which,occurring beforehand, render possible postoperative compli-cations relatively probable. It is, I think, a common experience that as surgeons pro-gress in precision and proficiency they are less likely to leaveout of statistical records other facts than mortality, for itbecomes evident that except in emergency service and thatwherein a desperate pathology approaches that line, clearjudgment, improved facilities, and trained technique shouldreasonably insure against all but accidental death. When, therefore, we estimate the merits of individualprocedures and the methods of any particular operator, theinquiries should be: (1) The length of disability, (2) th

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