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To Prolong Human Life And To Alleviate Suffering Are The Ultimate
Objects Of Scientific Medicine. The Two Great Branches Of The Healing
Art--Medicine And Surgery--Are So Intimately Related That It Is
Impossible To Draw A Hard-And-Fast Line Between Them, But For
Convenience Surgery May Be Defined As "The Art Of Treating Lesions And
Malformations Of The Human Body By Manual Operations, Mediate And
Immediate." To Apply His Art Intelligently And Successfully, It Is
Essential That The Surgeon Should Be Conversant Not Only With The Normal
Anatomy And Physiology Of The Body And With The Various Pathological
Conditions To Which It Is Liable, But Also With The Nature Of The
Process By Which Repair Of Injured Or Diseased Tissues Is Effected.
Without This Knowledge He Is Unable To Recognise Such Deviations From
The Normal As Result From Mal-Development, Injury, Or Disease, Or
Rationally To Direct His Efforts Towards The Correction Or Removal Of
These.