SURGICAL SHOCK
SURGICAL SHOCK. THANKS to anesthesia and antisepsis, pain and poison have been eliminated from operative surgery, and the most formidable complication now remaining for the surgeon to cope with, is shock. Its paramount importance, and the meagerness of the subject, make its further study eminently advisable. As here considered, the subject has nothing to do with “railroad spine” or “litigation symptoms,” but is no deal with the immediate constitutional phenomena produced by local traumatism, and will be used synonymously with collapse.