The morbid anatomy of the human gullet, stomach, and intestines / By Alexander Monro.

  • Monro, Alexander, 1773-1859.
Date:
1811
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Credit: The morbid anatomy of the human gullet, stomach, and intestines / By Alexander Monro. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    Eum recte curaturum, quem prima causae cfrigo noil fefellerit. In truth, that practitioner only who has accustomed himself to trace, by actual dissec- tion, the progress of the diseases of the Liver, or who has devoted his attention to those morbid prepara- tions which exhibit and explain the results of dis- section, can be qualified either to distinguish their nature and progress, or to form a just prognosis, and proper indications of cure. On the same principle, the surgeon acquainted with the situation of the under abdominal aperture only in its healthy state, must be greatly embarras- sed while performing the operation of Inguinal Her- nia ; for in such a case, that aperture retains neither its former size nor situation, having been united and involved with the adjacent cellular substance and fat; and when to these sources of uncertainty and embarrassment are superadded the great changes produced upon the displaced bowels, his perplexity must be proportionally increased. With regard to the last disease to which I allud- ed, the Stricture of the Urethra, some of the valuable remarks which occur in the treatise of Mr Home, appear to me to apply with particular force to the condhion of those surgeons, who have not acquired, from the study of Morbid Anatomy, an accurate idea of its nature and progress. For want of some criterion (he observes,) to guide our judgment in the investigation of diseases, we too often mistake the occasional symptoms for the disease itself; which, from the obscurity of its