Historical surgery, or the progress of the science of medicine: on inflamation, mortification, and gun-shot wounds / [John Hunt].

  • Hunt, John
Date:
1801
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Credit: Historical surgery, or the progress of the science of medicine: on inflamation, mortification, and gun-shot wounds / [John Hunt]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PIE mechanifm of animal life forms a diftinft fyftem of philofophy, to which the laws that regulate the operations of inanimate matter are in many refpe61;s inapplicable; and yet a knowledge of experimental philofophy is fo intimately con- ne6led with the ftudy of anatomy, that the ftru6lure and ope- rations of the different parts of the animal body cannot be well explained without it. To diftinguifh in what inftanccs thefe two branches of fcience may with propriety be connec- ted with each other, requires an extent of information, and accuracy of judgement, that is not frequently to be met with; and I prefume the following pages will bear ample teflimony to the truth of this affertion. Thofe, who wifh to fucceed in the fludy of philofophy, fhould acquire a knowledge of the experimental part in early B youth,