Principles of surgery, for the use of chirurgical students / by John Pearson. Part the first.

  • Pearson, John, 1758-1826.
Date:
1788
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Credit: Principles of surgery, for the use of chirurgical students / by John Pearson. Part the first. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    - « > Xll PREFACE dudion, which are impofed upon common- fized underftandings ; and with a faftidi- pus impetuofity will attempt to rend the veil from nature, by the mere powers of his own intelle£l. If fhe cannot thus be jtaken by florm, he will not condefcend to interrggate her, for by the vaftnefs of his mental powers, he finds it rnpch eafier to create a World, than to give a natural hif- tory of that which he inhabits. The Science of healing, like every other branch of natural knowledge, is not the production of ?i vigorous imagination, nor a lively invention, byt it is the offspring of long and diligent experience ; and if a man attempts to learn it in any other way than by going from his Study to the bed- side of his patient, and returning from thence tp his Study again, he will find himfelf miftaken. The human inind may ^e dazzled by the boldnefs of her flights, pr wounded by the Jceennefs of her fpecu- Rations ; but the fubtilty of nature cap only be penetrated by thofe whp fubmit ^o becpme her patienf Jfnd vigilant fer- yant?. Sj.)hynx