A probationary essay on the medical jurisprudence of blows and contusions : submitted by authority of the President and his Council, to the examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, when candidate for admission into their body, in conformity to their regulations respecting the admission of Ordinary Fellows / by David Skea.

  • Skae, David, 1814-1873.
Date:
1836
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    OF THE MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE OF BLOWS AND CONTUSIONS. The importance of any object is very nearly estimated by the number of its relations, and, in proportion to that number, is, in general, our familiarity with the object, and the accuracy of our knowledge regarding it. Thus, iron, a metal of little exchangeable value, in consequence of its numerous relations as a mechanical and chemical agent, becomes an object of the highest interest and importance. Thus also, do the details of anatomical structure, in them- selves dry and tedious, become interesting in the ex- treme, when considered with an immediate reference to their physiological and practical relations. It is by the num- ber and importance of these relations that we estimate the value of every fact; and it is by these that they are associ- ated together, and remembered when the knowledge of them is required. The anatomical fact, and the physiological or practical relation become, as they ought to be, inseparably connected together, and mutually suggest each other. In this way, anatomy must be taught and studied, in order to be remembered ; and in this manner its facts are remember- ed, according to the importance of each. If we would im- press any fact, then, upon our minds, which it may be use- ful or necessary at any time to know, we must make our- selves acquainted with all its relations. It is thus that