Observations on injuries of the spine and of the thigh bone : in two lectures, delivered in the school of Great Windmill Street ... the first in vindication of the author's opinions against the remarks of Sir Astley Cooper, Bart. The second on the late Mr. John Bell's title to certain doctrines, now advanced by the same gentleman, etc. / by Charles Bell.

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1824
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Credit: Observations on injuries of the spine and of the thigh bone : in two lectures, delivered in the school of Great Windmill Street ... the first in vindication of the author's opinions against the remarks of Sir Astley Cooper, Bart. The second on the late Mr. John Bell's title to certain doctrines, now advanced by the same gentleman, etc. / by Charles Bell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and progressive improvement of knowledge, even if the teacher have nothing hut method to recommend him. Of the effect of it, in some respects, the profession may judge by what has been done relative to the nervous system. But there is no part of anatomy which has not, from the same method of teaching, received improvement. I purposely lay before the profession an example of this mode of prosecuting the science in one of the most common and least interesting subjects of demonstra- tion, in order to show how much more accurate, and conse- quently how superior the conclusions are, which are drawn by a man who keeps steadily before him, in his reasonings, the ana- tomical demonstration, than those loose notions which are gene- rally called facts, drawn from practice. There are few demonstrations of the human body which would not better answer the object I have in view, in connect- ing the anatomy with practical inferences, than that which l have here selected. But at this moment, the public attention is so much drawn to the question of fractures of the thigh hone, as to afford a very striking illustration of the errors of the most ingenious men, when they neglect the aid of anatomy; or, when they pay no respect to the works of their predecessors, or b