The past and present treatment of intestinal obstructions : reviewed, with an improved treatment indicated / by Hugh Owen Thomas.

  • Thomas, Hugh Owen, 1834-1891.
Date:
1877
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Credit: The past and present treatment of intestinal obstructions : reviewed, with an improved treatment indicated / by Hugh Owen Thomas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    iv should the patient's history and appearance, &c., not indicate much stamina. Many readers may think that perhaps the author's comments upon the practice of gentlemen whom they may deem better able than him to give instruction on this question, indicates an exceeding confidence on his part. They may think that he rushes - in where angels fear to tread. His excuse is, that hitherto the angels have by no means trod gently when traversing this ground. Clinical observation is open to all, and is an inex- haustible field which has and will always repay the careful and unprejudiced explorer. Here was gained the experience which enables the author to assert the principles of treatment, urged with such confidence in these pages. II, Nelson Street, Liverpool.