A second essay on burns, in which an attempt is made to refute the opinions of Mr Earle and Sir W. Farquhar lately advanced on the supposed benefit of the application of ice in such accidents : with cases and communications confirming the principles and practice brought forward in a former essay.

  • Kentish, Edward, -1832.
Date:
1800
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Credit: A second essay on burns, in which an attempt is made to refute the opinions of Mr Earle and Sir W. Farquhar lately advanced on the supposed benefit of the application of ice in such accidents : with cases and communications confirming the principles and practice brought forward in a former essay. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    fant, but there are great benefits arifing from it; and as we are mere creatures of habit, each repe- tition is more eafy, and perhaps more beneficial. - In looking over what Aitken has faid upon burns, we fee in a ftrong point of view the errors that muff be committed by all fyfiem writers ; they are obliged to enlarge upon all parts of a fcience ; but to com- prehend the whole is more than the limited mind of man is capable of. Aitken had a vigorous in- telled, and had he been placed in proper circum- ftances, there are few men who would have fooner dete&ed error than himfelf; but he has written upon this fubjed as many others have done, with little experience and great prejudice. Would men in general confine their efforts to a few points, fcience would make a more rapid progrefs, though there might be lefs brilliancy attached to indivi- duals. It is by a divifion of labor that perfedion is to be attained in the fcientific, as well as in the mechanic arts; and were we truly to appreciate the matter, we fhould be convinced that there is. more credit in elucidating one uncertain point in the pradice of medicine or furgery, than in loading many clear points with a farrago, which, by the inexperienced, cannot be diftinguifhed, and of which the bad is as likely to be chofen as the good. Thus may error become per- petual. Mr