A TREATISE ON

SURGICAL JURISPRUDENCE.

WITH CHAPTERS ON

SKILL IN DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT, PROGNOSIS
IN FRACTURES, AND ON NEGLIGENCE.

BY.

MILO A. MCCLELLAND, M. D.

Men see clearly, like owls, in the night of their own notions, but in
experience, as in daylight, they wink and are but half-sighted. — BACON.
Deep science is desirable to the man of fortune-useful science to the
physician and surgeon.—SIR ASTLEY COOPER.

The first step toward improvement in any art or science, must be the
faithful exposure of its wants and deficiencies. - PROF. HAMILTON.

Professional employment is not only recognized as a legitimate and
substantial business of life, but it is regulated by fixed rules to ensure due
diligence and skill and its appropriate reward. -SMITH V. HILL, 13 Ark.
R. 173.

LANE MEDICAL LIBRARY

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NEW YORK:

PUBLISHED BY HURD AND HOUGHTON.
BOSTON: H. O. HOUGHTON & COMPANY.

Cambridge: The Riverside Press.

Copyright, 1877,
BY MILO A. MCCLELLAND.

The Riverside Press, Cambridge: PRINTED BY H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY.

I1121 116 1877

то

MY ESTEEMED TEACHER IN SURGERY,

FRANK H. HAMILTON, M. D.,

SURGEON TO BELLEVUE HOSPITAL, NEW YORK,

AS A SLIGHT ACKNOWLEDgment of tHE MANY BEnefits derived
FROM HIS TEACHING AND PUBLISHED WRITINGS,

ESPECIALLY THOSE ON

FRACTURES AND DISLOCATIONS,

AND IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF THE INTEREST

HE HAS TAKEN IN THIS WORK,

AND TO

MADISON REECE, M. D.,

OF ABINGDON, ILLINOIS,

THE PERSONAL FRIEND, WHOSE ATTAINMENTS IN MEDICINE ARE ONLY
EQUALLED BY HIS COURTESY TO PROFESSIONAL BRETHREN, THIS

ATTEMPT AT USEFULNESS IN AN IMPORTANT BRANCH OF
MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE,

IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED.

M. A. M.