Practical inquiry into the causes of the frequent failure of the operations of depression, and of the extraction of the cataract, as usually performed : with the description of a series of new and improved operations, by the practice of which, most of the causes of failure may be avoided, illustrated by tables of the comparative success of the new and old modes of practice / by Sir William Adams.

  • Adams, William, Sir, 1783-1827.
Date:
1817
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    the physicians of his day, and remarking upon their consequent incompetency. His words are, That it is not the insufficiency or incapacity of man's mind, but it is the remote standing or placing thereof, that breedeth these mazes and incom- prehensions; for, as the sense afar off is fuil of mistaking, but is exact at hand, so it is of the understanding,-—the remedy whereof is not to quicken or strengthen the organ, but to go nearer to the object:' The late Doctor Gregory, who was one of the most learned and eminent physicians of his day, observes, in his work, entitled, ^ Duties and Qualifications of a Physician,' that a practitioner well grounded in general knowledge, may have considerable advan- tages, and more readily make improvements, by attaching himself to the study of one or two parti- cular diseases. We have also the conclusive opinion of our im- mortal Sydenham upon this subject, who says,— If onlif one 'physician in each century since the begin- ning of the world, had strictly confined himself to the treatment of only one disease, the healing art (which is justly the physician s province) would long since have attained to the highest point of perfection, that f rail humanity at least may hope to accomplish * Si vel unus tantiim persingula Mundi Secula hoc modo unicum tracta- verit Morbum, Medendi Ars (quae Medicorum est provincia) a multis retr6 <* Annis ad a-K^rtv pervenissit, omnibus absoluta numeris, saltern in quan- t^inrfert mortaliura sors.—Sydenh. Prcefat.