In spite of otherwise great excellence, works on dermatology usually ignore the teaching needs of beginners.
Cutaneous medicine is so confusing that, unless its study is gradually led up to, it appears chaotic. Indeed, frankness compels the admission that it is never quite simple, even to an accredited expert.
The object of this work is to afford the opportunity of acquiring a rapidly practical knowledge of “regional anesthesia” and to teach the reader how to use the method successfully.
Local infiltration, as practiced by many surgeons, is a procedure whose usefulness as a substitute for general narcosis for minor operations is universally admitted, but its possibilities in major surgery are so limited that it is necessary to have recourse to another method with broader horizons.
Regional anesthesia fulfills the best conditions hitherto offered for the accomplishment of the most delicate and elaborate surgical procedure.
