The history and progress of surgery : an address, delivered to the medical students of the Melbourne Hospital, on the occasion of the presentation of the prizes in the class of operative surgery / by James George Beaney.

  • Beaney, James George, 1828-1891.
Date:
1877
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Credit: The history and progress of surgery : an address, delivered to the medical students of the Melbourne Hospital, on the occasion of the presentation of the prizes in the class of operative surgery / by James George Beaney. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    rubbing his arms and legs, and friends making such a hellish noise as they probably thought would scare away the devil of sickness. Winslow gave him some conserve, washed his mouth, scraped his tongue, which was in a horrid state; got down some drink, made him some broth, dosed him with an infusion of strawberry leaves and sassafras root, and had the satisfaction of seeing him recover. Massasut, full of gratitude, revealed the plot that had been formed to destroy the colonists, whereupon the Governor ordered Captain Miles Standish to see to them, who thereupon stabbed Picksnot with his own knife, broke up the plot, saved the colony; and thus— as Dr. Holmes says, who related the story, rendered Massachusetts and the Massachusetts Medical Society a possibility, as they now are a fact before us. In conclusion, suffer me to remind you that ours is both an art and a science! an art in so far as it involves the performance of the various manual duties required, or the employment of the means invented for us by the skilful mechanist, and a science in relation to the choice and application of such means. Both the art and science must