Elements of surgery: for the use of students ; with plates (Volume 1).

  • Dorsey, John Syng, 1783-1818.
Date:
1813
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Credit: Elements of surgery: for the use of students ; with plates (Volume 1). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. Numerous circumstances combine to render neces- sary an American Epitome of Practical Surgery; those members of the medical profession who, by talent and experience, are best qualified to compose it, are fully occupied by other duties, and indifferent to that species of reputation which might accrue from such a publica- tion ; the labour has therefore, in the present instance, devolved upon one in many respects inadequate to the performance, and fully sensible of the imperfections of his work. An American, although he must labour under many disadvantages in the production of an elementary trea- tise, is in one respect better qualified for it than an Euro- pean surgeon. He is,-at least he ought to be,-strictly impartial, and therefore adopts from all nations their respective improvements. Great Britain and France have been foremost in the cultivation of modern surgery, but their deficiency in philosophick courtesy and candour has in some instances greatly retarded its progress; to illus- trate this remark, it will be sufficient to state, that the doc- trines of adhesion so ably developed in England, have been shamefully neglected in France; and that French surgery