Reports of the practice in the clinical wards of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh ... / [Andrew Duncan].

  • Duncan, Andrew, Jun., 1773-1832
Date:
1818
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Credit: Reports of the practice in the clinical wards of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh ... / [Andrew Duncan]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In the concluding lecture of each clinical course, I am in the habit of giving a syste¬ matical abstract of the occurrences which have taken place in the wards during the time they have been under my charge ; and I thought that, by revising those deli¬ vered upon the two last occasions, and con¬ densing them into one Report, I might, however imperfectly, supply the information wanted. I was also desirous of laying before you an example of the manner of keeping an abstract of the multiplied experience of great hospi¬ tals, without which their utility, as a source of information to the profession, is greatly abridged. Such reports have been often published by hospital physicians in various capitals and schools on the continent of Eu¬ rope ; and those which we now receive regu¬ larly from Dublin are amongst the most va¬ luable medical documents we possess. I am fully aware of the numerous im¬ perfections of the following pages. They were originally written, literally currente ca-