Observations on some important points in the practice of military surgery, and in the arrangement and police of hospitals : illustrated by cases and dissections / by John Hennen, Deputy Inspector of Military Hospitals.

  • Hennen, John, 1779-1828.
Date:
1818
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Credit: Observations on some important points in the practice of military surgery, and in the arrangement and police of hospitals : illustrated by cases and dissections / by John Hennen, Deputy Inspector of Military Hospitals. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    i% quite sufficient for the men of established character in settled practice ; but it became necessary to do something more, to satisfy the increasing demands of the public service, and the practice of the great naval and military hospitals at home, furnished a source of secondary information on these points ; while few, if any, of the public teachers had ever been in the service, or had treated a series of mi- litary accidents from their infliction to their ter- mination. In place of practical facts, therefore, the ingenuity of conjecture and the poignancy of wit, were occasionally called into action ; the army surgeons, whose multifarious employments did not permit them to write, were hinted at as ignorant *' routiniers; while they were acquiring knowledge in the volume of nature, the lecture-room and the press poured forth the fabrications of imagination y the modesty and forbearance of those who were really qualified to instruct, were construed into ina- bility ; and some teachers and writers, without taking time to deliberate, or even without having data to deliberate on, were they so inclined, essay- ed to involve in promiscuous reprehension the whole body of army practitioners, and held them up to derision and contempt: imitating the ex- ample of those critics, who, to use the language of a celebrated author, in his Tale of. a Tub, by long digressions unsought for, and universal censures unprovoked, have forced into the light, & with much pains and dexterity, their own excel- u