Surgery, with Special Reference to Podiatry

** "Surgery, with Special Reference to Podiatry" by Maximilian Stern is an early 20th-century handbook that sheds light on surgical methods tailored to the foot, offering practitioners and students in the field crucial information about surgical theory and application regarding chiropody. It explains the intent and scope of the book, highlighting the need to understand the physiological and pathological processes tied to surgical treatments of the foot. The guide distinguishes surgery from general medicine, sorting surgical conditions into injuries, infections, and diseases while underscoring the critical nature of asepsis and antisepsis in surgery. The text establishes basic ideas like tissue composition, how the body responds to bacteria, and the vital part that manual procedures play in caring for foot problems, which opens the door for talking about more detailed topics later on. **