Surgical observations on tumours, and on lumbar abscesses / [John Abernethy].

  • Abernethy, John, 1764-1831
Date:
1822
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Credit: Surgical observations on tumours, and on lumbar abscesses / [John Abernethy]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    An Attempt to form a Classification of Tumours according to their Anatomical Structure. The observations which I have had an opportunity of making in St, Bartholo« mew’s Hospital, on the various tumours which occur in the human body, have been so numerous, that I have almost felt myself under the necessity of forming some classifi- cation of those diseases. This classification I have attempted according to their anatomical structure; which allows, at the same time, of a corresponding arrangement of those practi- cal remarks that have been promiscuously collected, I have long felt so sensibly the advantages resulting from an orderly arrange- ment of this extensive subject, that I have taught it for some years in my Lectures in VOL. IV. B the