Surgical essays. Part I / By Astley Cooper ... and Benjamin Travers.

  • Cooper, Astley, Sir, 1768-1841.
Date:
1818
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Credit: Surgical essays. Part I / By Astley Cooper ... and Benjamin Travers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. Tue publication of a Work, upon the plan of that which is now submitted to the Public, has been for many years the intention of the Authors, and was only postponed until the ju- nior should have succeeded to the situation of Surgeon to St. Thomas’s or Guy’s Hospital. It would be impossible for any person to witness the abundant opportunities afforded by these munificent establishments, (which to- gether accommodate more than eight hundred patients, besides numerous out-patients,) with- out participating in the anxious wish of the Authors, that they should be adequately im- proved. The variety which of necessity occurs in the practice of the Surgeons—the facility afforded to them in their respective plans of treatment—the Opportunities of improving the practice of $