Observations on diseased spine : illustrated by a case : and containing strictures upon Mr. Baynton's treatise on that disorder / by J. B. Estlin.

  • Estlin, John Bishop.
Date:
1818
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Credit: Observations on diseased spine : illustrated by a case : and containing strictures upon Mr. Baynton's treatise on that disorder / by J. B. Estlin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    INTRODUCTION THE Author of the following Observations was advised, originally, to submit them to the Public in the form of a Pamphlet. A degree of doubt whether they were of importance enough to be entitled to a separate publication, and an unwillingness to be thought invidious., in criticising and censuring the opinions of a medical practitioner residing in the same city with himself, before a class of readers not the most competent to form a judgment upon the subject in dispute, induced him to publish fhem in the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, a periodical work of the highest reputation, and devoted to subjects of medical intelligence and criticism. The articles in this Journal meet the eye of almost every practitioner in the kingdom; and its Editors, with a laudable zeal for the improvement of science, never reject the con- tributions of respectable writers, who wish to