Strictures on a paper published in the London Medical Repository, April 1815, intitled Observations on the Caesarean section, and premature delivery, by Odinoboethos : with observations on professional character and medical responsibility / by a surgeon.

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1815
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Credit: Strictures on a paper published in the London Medical Repository, April 1815, intitled Observations on the Caesarean section, and premature delivery, by Odinoboethos : with observations on professional character and medical responsibility / by a surgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    THE LONDON MEDICAL REPOSITORY. No. 17. MAY 1, 1815. Yol. IH. PART I. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. I. Strictures on a Paper published in the London Medical Repo- sitory, April 1815, intitled “ Observations on the Caesarean. Section,and Premature Delivery, by tlhivofionOoc with Obser- vations on Professional Character and Medical Responsibility. —By a Surckon. “ Est modus in rebus.”—Horace. The promoters of Medical Knowledge, if they are some- times compelled to lament the injuries done their art by the waste of time and talent in idle controversies, must more fre- quently rejoice at the successful use of the Novum Organum, and the exercise of impartial criticism on productions which might possibly tend to deteriorate, in the public-eye; the value of judicious practice. We live now at an era in the history of science, in which we are surrounded by a generation of periodical writers and of watchful observers; and we must confess that we are often in- debted to them for the publicity of insulated, but highly im- portant facts; which would be lost to science without their arresting energy, and for the exercise of much useful animad- version. The man who communicates a successful method of practice, performed on rational principles in any case worth ob- servation, is unquestionably entitled to the thanks of the com- munity ; and not less so is the man who relates a failure of his, not always, “ all potent artfor although there may be a more scanty offering of incense to the vanity of human nature, or the vol. in.—no. 17. 3 a