The retrospective address ... delivered at the thirteenth anniversary meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, held at Sheffield, on Wednesday and Thursday, July 30th & 31st, 1845 / Edward Charlton.

  • Charlton, Edward.
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[1845?]
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Credit: The retrospective address ... delivered at the thirteenth anniversary meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, held at Sheffield, on Wednesday and Thursday, July 30th & 31st, 1845 / Edward Charlton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE RETROSPECTIVE ADDRESS, BY EDWARD CHARLTON, M.D., Lecturer on the Practice of Physic in the School of Medicine # Surgery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, DELIVERED AT THE THIRTEENTH ANNIVERSARY MEETING OF THE PROVINCIAL MEDICAL AND SURGICAL ASSOCIATION, HELD AT SHEFFIELD, ON WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, JULY 30th & 31st, 1845. Two opposite courses present themselves for our selection upon the present occasion of addressing you. The one, easier for ourselves, by far, would have been to extract from various sources the most interesting cases and observations; the other, a much more arduous task, is to analyze the general opinions of the profession on each disease, to amalgamate them with our own experience, and, thus condensed, to present them to our hearers. It is needless to say that we have preferred the latter and the more difficult alternative; how far we may have succeeded it will be for you to decide. We regret much that it has seemed necessary to the Council of the Association to re-unite the vast subject of physiology with that of practical medicine, as the obvious result has been, that much interesting matter relating to both departments has in this year’s Address been omitted. On this account we cannot occupy your time by any preliminary observations, though the now agitated questions, of Medical Reform, of Hygiene, and of VOL. XIV. B