Quarterly report of the Edinburgh Surgical Hospital from August to November 1829 / by James Syme.

  • Syme, James, 1799-1870.
Date:
[1829]
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Credit: Quarterly report of the Edinburgh Surgical Hospital from August to November 1829 / by James Syme. 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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    (S- Quarterly Report of the Edinburgh Surgical Hospital from August to November 1829- J8y James Syme, Esq. Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, and Lecturer on Surgery. (From the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, No. 102.^ Since the date of last Report, the cases of surgical disease, for which relief has been sought at the hospital, have increased in number and importance. 553 patients have applied within the last three months. Of these 64 have been admitted into the house, and the remainder have been treated as out-patients, receiving advice and medi- cines from the institution. It was my intention to have written a report of the more in- teresting cases which have occurred within the period above- mentioned ; but I find that my Systematic and Clinical Lectures, together with my professional avocations in private, do not af- ford me the requisite leisure for this purpose at present. I will therefore, in the meantime, merely make some observations on the treatment of ulcers, and at a more convenient opportunity take a review of the other cases. The very great number and variety of ulcers which have been presented at the hospital, afforded me ample opportunity of illustrating the treatment of these most frequent and distres- sing affections. I felt much satisfaction in doing so on several accounts. Is/, The great relief derived by the patients, many of whom were restored to the means of earning a livelihood, of which they had previously been long deprived. 2c/, The useful instruction derived by my pupils, who were wise enough to re- gard the ordinary duties of their profession as deserving of at least as much attention as those great and bloody exploits^which occur but seldom in the course of practice. 3t/, The widely extended and sound reputation acquired by the new Institution from curing diseases, where the relief is so great and manifest and the means of remedy are so little disagreeable. ’