Alexander Miles

Alexander Miles
Alexander Miles (1865–1953) was a prominent Scottish surgeon associated with the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, renowned for his exceptional surgical teaching and contributions to medical literature. He served as President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and played a significant role as an editor of the Edinburgh Medical Journal from 1911 to 1935. Miles co-authored "The Manual of Surgery" in 1904, which became highly popular, resulting in nine editions, and also published "Operative Surgery" in 1920. His dedication to surgical history is exemplified in works like "The Edinburgh School of Surgery before Lister" and the posthumously published "The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh; historical notes from 1505 to 1905."

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Introduction 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,... more...

FRACTURES A fracture may be defined as a sudden solution in the continuity of a bone. Pathological Fractures A pathological fracture has as its primary cause some diseased state of the bone, which permits of its giving way on the application of a force which would be insufficient to break a healthy bone. It cannot be too strongly emphasised that when a bone is found to have been broken by a slight... more...