An appeal to the medical profession, on the utility of the improved patent syringe, with directions for its several uses, shewing, by a statement of facts, the validity of the rights and claims of the patentee.

  • Read, John, 1760-1847.
Date:
1824
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Credit: An appeal to the medical profession, on the utility of the improved patent syringe, with directions for its several uses, shewing, by a statement of facts, the validity of the rights and claims of the patentee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    THE LONDON « Medical and Physical Journal. 1 OF VOL. LII.] JULY, 1824. [NO. 305. for many fortunate'discoveries in medicinCj and for the detection of numerous errors, the world is indebted to the rapid circnlation of Mbnthiy Journals; and there never existed any work, to which tlie F.ioulty, in Europe and America, were under deeper obligations, than to the Medical and PhysicalJournal of London, now forming a long, but an invaluable, series,—RUSHt HISTORICAL RETROSPECT FOR JULY, 1824. ANATOMY (NATURAL) AND PHYSIOLOGY. Although it is not easy to draw an e.sact line of demarcation between some parts of minute anatomy and piiysiology, yet we shall endeavour, in the first place, to speak of matters relating purely to the disposition of parts, and afterwards proceed to those which involve an inquiry into functions. The subject of Human Anatomy bas been too long and loo assidu- ously cultivated, to have left riuich for the present generation to accom- plish in the way of discovery; and whatever improvements take place consist in new descriptions, new plates, or new arrangements, rather than in the development of any natural part or structure not already knowui. Of late years, indeed, anatomists, despairing of being able to find new muscles, nerves, or arteries, have devoted themselves to what may be termed the unravelling of textures; and the fibres of every organ (for e.xample, of the heart,) have been followed with most praise worthy patience, and every turn and bending of the most minute muscular thread have been described with the utmost precision; nerves have been traced until lost to the microscope; and arteries have received names, even to the “ ramusculi ramusculorum/’ One great advantage is possessed by those who seek for discoveries of this kind,—we mean the extreme difficulty of delecting or proving their inaccuracy ; so that, when a description of some very minute piece of anatomy has once been given, it generally passes current for a considerable time, as not one in ^ thousand has either the opportunity or the patience to repeat the iii- vesligation. Nevertheless, some exceptions to this general barrenness of discovery are occasionally to be met with, one of which we formerly alluded to, in the detection of a new muscle in the orbit by Dr. Horner, of Pennsylvania ; and we shall now present onr readers with the account which he himself gives of it in an anatomical work recently published.*' * Lessom in ^radical Anatomy, for the Use of Dissectors, By \Y. E. Hornek, M.D. Pennsylvania, NO. 305. B