A letter respectfully addressed to the Commissioners for Transports, Sick and Wounded Seamen, etc., on the subject of the operation for popliteal aneurism. Illustrated by cases, and the description of a new instrument / by Alex. Copland Hutchison.

Date:
1811
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Credit: A letter respectfully addressed to the Commissioners for Transports, Sick and Wounded Seamen, etc., on the subject of the operation for popliteal aneurism. Illustrated by cases, and the description of a new instrument / by Alex. Copland Hutchison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    LETTER THE COMMISSIONERS FOR TRANSPORTS, SICK AND WOUNDED SEAMEN, &?c. tyc. S?c. Gentlemen, Royal Naval Hospital, Deal, 16th May, 1811, No science has made a more rapid progrefs towards attaining perfection, within the lad fifty years, than that of Surgery; and furely none can be more generally ufeful. Its importance and utility will be still farther appre- ciated, when we confider the vaft increafe of our naval and military equipments for a war of unex- ampled continuance and devaftation ; many of the evils of which it either wholly removes or tends conliderably to mitigate. The public appointment which I hold as Surgeon to this Hofpital, and the wide field for practical obfervation that necelTarily lies open before me, renders it a duty I owe the Profeflion, to lay be- a \ /