Surgical and physiological essays. Part III. / By John Abernethy, F.R.S. Assistant surgeon to St. Bartholomew's hospital; and lecturer in anatomy and surgery.

  • Abernethy, John, 1764-1831.
Date:
1797
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    open its eye. Shortly afterwards all medical treatment was diicontinued, and no appear- ance oi this unnatural llructure remains. A third cafe of a very extenfive mark of this defcription, covering the back and flioul- der, got well, as I am informed, by the fame treatment. I have not, however, been able to learn the particulars. It appears to me probable, from the foregoing cafes, that if the preternatural diffention of the velfels could be prevented, the blood might coagulate in them ; and thus this unnatural contexture of velfels, being rendered impervious, might become ob- literated. The bed mode of obtaining and increaling profeffional knowledge is, in my opinion, to pay that llridt attention to cafes, which enables us to note thofc nice fhades of difference, which didin&'uifh difeafes from each other ; and alfo to form tome regular arrangement of them ; fo that, ultimately, we mav be able to difeover their natural feries and order. This method I have purfued from the beginning of my pro- feffienal