Symptomatology, or, The art of detecting disease : a lecture occasionally read to the pupils at the Westminster Hospital, and published according to their request : to which are added, tables of symptoms / by Alex. P. Buchan.

  • Buchan, A. P. (Alexander Peter), 1764-1824.
Date:
1824
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Credit: Symptomatology, or, The art of detecting disease : a lecture occasionally read to the pupils at the Westminster Hospital, and published according to their request : to which are added, tables of symptoms / by Alex. P. Buchan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    practical knowledge from serving in the armies of Henry the Fourth, among whom the use of fire arms had been recently in- troduced ; the latter, in early life, passed his time among the sea pirates and free- booters of Ostend and the other parts of the Netherlands. These men, both pos- sessed of strong minds and original views, threw much light by their writings on the profession of surgery, and even at the present day their works may be read with advantage and improvement. Since that period the sister sciences of medicine and surgery may be said to have advanced with equal steps, and the professors of each have, with laudable emulation, availed themselves of all the improvements derived from the progress of anatomy, chemistry, and philosophy, which tend to advance the knowledge.