Observations on the causes and treatment of ulcerous diseases of the leg / by J.C. Spender.

Date:
1835
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Credit: Observations on the causes and treatment of ulcerous diseases of the leg / by J.C. Spender. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    The Author is anxious to remark, as early as he can, that although the nature of the present publication has led him to speak much in the first person, yet this mode of expression must not be misconstrued into egotism. It is, in reality, the result of diffidence, though not of distrust in his opinions ; as it would indeed be arrogance to announce as established truths those statements which must first of all rest on the limited foun- dation of individual experience. Possibly, however, it may be urged by some, that his little Volume contains nothing new; and that all he has written is very old and very well known. To such observations as these, he must be permitted to make the two following replies. 1. Even if his opinions be found deficient in novelty, they are most of them original, so far as the Author is concerned. About five years ago, though ignorant, as he has since found, of some modes of treatment recommended, yet,