Fractures of the orbit : and injuries to the eye in war / by Félix Lagrange ; translated by Herbert Child ; edited by J. Herbert Parsons.

  • Lagrange, Félix, 1857-1928.
Date:
1918
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Credit: Fractures of the orbit : and injuries to the eye in war / by Félix Lagrange ; translated by Herbert Child ; edited by J. Herbert Parsons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    wounded were to be confided. Fixed principles existed in all the sciences auxiliary to the work of the surgeon, but our scientific resources were not immediately available at the outset of the great campaign ; scientific work bearing on wound problems had not been arranged in a manner adapted to the requirements, indeed the requirements were not fully foreseen; the workers in the various fields were isolated, or isolated themselves pursuing new researches rather than concentrating their powerful forces upon the one great quest. However brilliant the triumphs of surgery may be, and that they have been of surpassing splendour no one will be found to deny, experiences of the war have already produced a mass of facts sufficient to suggest the complete remodelling of our methods of education and research. The series of manuals, which it is my pleasant duty to introduce to English readers, consists of trans¬ lations of the principal volumes of the “ Horizon ” Collection which has been appropriately named after the uniform of the French soldier. The authors, who are all well-known specialists in the subjects which they represent, have given a con¬ cise but eminently readable account of the recent acquisitions to the medicine and surgery of war which had hitherto been disseminated in periodical literature. No higher praise can be given to the Editors than to say that the clearness of exposition characteristic of the French original has not been lost in the rendering into English. MEDICAL SERIES The medical volumes which have been translated for this series may be divided into two main groups, the first dealing with certain epidemic diseases includ¬ ing syphilis, which are most liable to attack soldiers, and the second with various aspects of the neurology of war. The last word on Typhoid Fever, hitherto “ the greatest scourge of armies in time of war,” as it has been truly called, will be found in the mono-