Clinical report [on cases in the Edinburgh Surgical Hospital] for the winter session 1834-35.

  • Syme, James, 1799-1870.
Date:
1835]
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Credit: Clinical report [on cases in the Edinburgh Surgical Hospital] for the winter session 1834-35. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CLINICAL REPORT FOR THE WINTER SESSION 1834—35. By James Syme, Esq. Professor of Clinical Surgery in the University of Edinburgh, and Surgeon to the Royal Infirmary. ( From the Edinburgh Med. and Surg. Journal, No. 124,) In the Reports which I formerly offered to the public through the medium of this Journal, my object was not merely to con¬ vey information of practical utility, but also to show the actual amount of practice in the Surgical Hospital which had been re¬ cently established. Cases were therefore selected, fully as much on account of their severity, or other circumstances rendering them of importance, as in respect to the instruction to be de¬ rived from them ; and the detail with which ordinary opera¬ tions were related might not unfrequently have incurred the charge of prolixity from practical readers, who were not aware of the peculiar circumstances under which these reports were under¬ taken. Having now no view but to communicate the observa¬ tions tending to illustrate the practice of surgery, which my connection with the Royal Infirmary may enable me to collect, I shall not for the future think it necessary to notice any cases except those which afford subject of interesting or useful consi¬ deration. Eoceision of the Superior Maxillary Bone—Recovery.—. A