A description of the diseased conditions of the knee-joint which require amputation of the limb, and those conditions which are favourable to excision of the joint : with an explanation of the relative advantages of both operations as far as can be ascertained by cases properly authenticated / by Peter Charles Price ; edited, with a preface and memoir of the author, by Henry Smith.

  • Price P. C. (Peter Charles), 1832-1864.
Date:
1865
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Credit: A description of the diseased conditions of the knee-joint which require amputation of the limb, and those conditions which are favourable to excision of the joint : with an explanation of the relative advantages of both operations as far as can be ascertained by cases properly authenticated / by Peter Charles Price ; edited, with a preface and memoir of the author, by Henry Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    I have heard him say he had in his note-books particulars of every important operation which he had attended in Mr. Fergusson's practice. To these excellent qualities were added a personal appearance and manner remarkably attractive, and which inspired his patients, both in private and in public, with a large amount of confidence. He was an uncommonly sensitive man ; but in all my intercoui-se with him I may truly say I never once saw him lose his temper. And during his long illness he showed neither impatience nor fretfulness in conversation or in his letters; on the contrary, as I have before observed, there were evinced in him a manly yet j)roper resignation, and a careful consideration for the trials of others ; and, therefore, it is not a matter of wonder that so much real sorrow should have been expressed for his premature removal from this earthly scene, and that such handsome tributes should have been paid, by the organs of the medical press, to the memory of one who died so young, but yet lived long enoiigh to leave a permanent name amongst the benefactors and ornaments of Sui'gery. H. S.