Surgical tracts / by the late J.O. Justamond ; the whole collected and interspersed with occasional notes and observations by William Houlston.

  • Justamond, J. O.
Date:
1789
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Credit: Surgical tracts / by the late J.O. Justamond ; the whole collected and interspersed with occasional notes and observations by William Houlston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    who, equally difpofed to lament the occafion, and to admire the chirurgical abilities of the deceafed author, have liberally encouraged and generoufly fupported the defign. The hiilory of furgery will be found to afford lefs novelty in the matter, than in the arrangement of it. In chronolo- gical points, the author will appear to have fo far differed from Freind, and other writers, as to juftify the defign of the whole performance, which is likewife meant to feparate the hiftorical occurrences of Surgery from thofe which relate to the medical art at large ; a view in which, hitherto, the fubject has been uniformly treated, but which, in proportion as it is advanced towards the prefent period, mud have be- come the more obvioufly improper. It may be likewife re- marked, that the author, in carrying this hiftory to his own time, has included many eminent furgeons, to whofe extra- ordinary talents this ncceffary tribute had not before been paid *. * We mould here regret, that in the number of thofe whofe eminence as prac- titioners, and whofe zeal and ability in the improvement of our art, have rendered them the proper objects of public regard and veneration ; the particulars of the life of that great and diftinguiffied furgeon, Mr. Pott, are not included. This however will not be difficult to account for, and in a way that does the author no difcredit. The manufcript which fupplied the Hiftor)Aof Surgery, was ufed by the author as notes, for a difcourfe, introductory to a feries of Lectures on the Practice of Surgery, which he publicly delivered in London; and, thus circum- ftanced, he thought it highly proper to avoid animadverting on the profeffional abilities and conduct of any living character; a motive'not unworthy.pur com- mendation, and obvioully neceffary in a public lecturer. The medical world, however, will fhortly be gratified, with an account of this very diftinguifhed Pradtitioner, affixed to a complete edition of his works, from the pen of Mr. E.ARLE. An