Observations on the surgery of the ancients, vindicating their claims to many of the reputed discoveries and improvements of modern times. Delivered as an introductory discourse to a course of lectures on surgery and midwifery / [David Hosack].

  • Hosack, David, 1769-1835
Date:
1813
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Credit: Observations on the surgery of the ancients, vindicating their claims to many of the reputed discoveries and improvements of modern times. Delivered as an introductory discourse to a course of lectures on surgery and midwifery / [David Hosack]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ing, not only the surgery of the ancients, but many original observations, which may be perused with much interest, even at this day. Of Fabricius, Boerhaave observes, “ ille superavit omnes omnibus potius quam hocce carere pos- sumus.’^ Upon some future occasion, I propose to take a view of the progress of this art, from the revival of learning to the present period 5 in which I shall enumerate the advantages which the practice of surgery has derived from the discove¬ ry of the circulation of the blood, and the subsequent im¬ provements in anatomy and the other branches of the heal¬ ing art.