Surgical observations on the constitutional origin and treatment of local diseases and on aneurisms / by John Abernethy.

  • Abernethy, John, 1764-1831.
Date:
1809
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Credit: Surgical observations on the constitutional origin and treatment of local diseases and on aneurisms / by John Abernethy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    PREFACE. HE beft mode of obtaining and extending medical and furgical knowledge is, in my opinion, to pay that ftri6l attention to difeafes, which qualifies us to note even the {lighter fliades of difference that diftinguifti them from each other. Such difcrimination leads us to form fome regular arrangement of them, which, even if it be not corre6f, may ultimately enable us to difcover their natural feries and order. This method I have pur- fued from the beginning of my profeffional ftudies. Whenever the opinions on fubjeifs of importance, which an attention to cafes had imprelfed upon my mind, differed from thofe which feemed to prevail amongft other pra6litioners, I publilhed the fa6fs, and the ' inferences which I drew from them, becaufe I thought that 'he former at leaft deferved attention, and that the latter would either be confirmed or confuted by the refult of general experience. It