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Surgical Observations On the More Important Diseases of the Mucous Canals of the Body

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First published: 1830
Pages: 205

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Surgical Observations On the More Important Diseases of the Mucous Canals is a clinical work by George Macilwain (1797-1882), the London-based surgeon who wrote across his career on practical surgery and on medical reform. The book reviews surgical management of conditions affecting the mucous-lined passages of the body, with chapters on the urethra, the oesophagus, the rectum, and related sites. Macilwain draws on his own hospital case work and on the wider surgical literature of the early Victorian period to argue for systematic, conservative treatment in place of aggressive intervention. He was a vocal critic of routine bloodletting and an early voice for dietary reform within the London medical establishment. The book is now a useful primary source for the history of nineteenth-century English surgery. Free PDF download available on BDeBooks.

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George Macilwain

George Macilwain was a nineteenth-century British surgeon and medical writer whose publications joined clinical reporting to proposals for improving surgical practice. Born in 1797 to an Irish country surgeon, he studied under John Abernethy, qualified through the Royal College of Surgeons in 1818, and served at the Finsbury Dispensary.