Pioneer surgery in Kentucky : a sketch / by David W. Yandell.

  • David Wendel Yandell
Date:
1890
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Pioneer surgery in Kentucky : a sketch / by David W. Yandell. 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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    wheel had broken it or been broken by it. The fathers of the subjects of this narrative followed this road after crossing the Alleghanies. They were a clear- eyed, a bold, an adventurous people. They wrested the land from the savage, made it secure by their arms, and by the toil of their hands fitted it for its present civilization. Among these, and such as these, these heroes in the bloody exploits of surgery were reared. From such ancestors they drew that daunt- less courage which was so often tried in their achieve- ments— achievements the fame of which will not lapse with the lapse of time. Boone had opened the way to the wilderness around them. He “blazed” a path through its unbroken depths, along which the stream of civilization quickly flowed. They blazed a path through the unexplored regions of their art along which surgeons continue to tread. His name is written in the history of his adopted State and em- balmed in the traditions of its people. Their names are written in the chronicles of their beloved calling and upon the hearts of myriads of sufferers whom their beneficent labors have relieved. They* may or may not have felt that their work was durable. But durable it is, and it hands down to posterity a monumentum cere perennius, the absolute worth of which passes computation. No present or future modification of this work can rob its authors of that
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