Lectures on the structure and physiology of the parts composing the skeleton, and on the diseases of the bones and joints of the human body : preceded by some observations on the influence of the brain and nerves, delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons of London, in the summer of the year 1820 / by James Wilson.

  • Wilson, James.
Date:
1820
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Lectures on the structure and physiology of the parts composing the skeleton, and on the diseases of the bones and joints of the human body : preceded by some observations on the influence of the brain and nerves, delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons of London, in the summer of the year 1820 / by James Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by UCL Library Services. The original may be consulted at UCL (University College London)

    7/438
    TO THE READER. THE Lectures which compose this volume are presented to the Public from the same motives, that induced me to lay before them the discourses delivered last year, at the Royal College of Surgeons, on the Blood and Vas- cular System; the favourable reception of which, has become an additional motive for the present publication. In the introductory observations I have stated my reasons for the selection of the subjects of discourse, and the manner in which I thought it became me to treat on them, before an audience so peculiarly con- stituted, as the one assembled in the Theatre of the College. It having been suggested to me that a con* cise description of the figure and shape of the