Observations on aneurism of the abdominal aorta / [Alexander Monro].

  • Monro, Alexander, 1773-1859.
Date:
1827
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Credit: Observations on aneurism of the abdominal aorta / [Alexander Monro]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS, &C. INJotwithstanding the little reliance which M. Fodere, and a few others, place in the knowledge which may be gained from the dissection of morbid bodies, I am disposed to think that most medical men entertain a different opinion, and concur with Dr Sandifort, who has remarked, <£ Et quis denique vel ipsius Hippocratis aurea scripta attento volvens animo, non animad- vertit saepius summum hunc naturae observatorem, longe plures sanaturum fuisse morbos, si cultri ope illorum inquirere causas ipse fuisset concessum. Revera enim in permultis casibus, causa morbi inventa, inventam etiam esse sanationem, et pluri- mos ab hostili morborum insultu esse liberates.1-1 The importance of the study of morbid anatomy, to the accu¬ rate knowledge of physic and surgery, must be obvious even to the cursory and inexperienced inquirer. It may indeed be re¬ presented as one of the primary foundations of medical science, for, without an intimate acquaintance with the morbid changes that take place in the human frame, as the causes or the effects of disease, the practice of physic and surgery can be directed only by ill-founded hypotheses, or blind empiricism. The inspection of morbid bodies not only explains the cause of the progressive advancement of organic diseases towards their fatal termination, but also the manner in which such organic A