Symptomatology, or, The art of detecting disease : a lecture occasionally read to the pupils at the Westminster Hospital, and published according to their request : to which are added, tables of symptoms / by Alex. P. Buchan.

  • Buchan, A. P. (Alexander Peter), 1764-1824.
Date:
1824
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Credit: Symptomatology, or, The art of detecting disease : a lecture occasionally read to the pupils at the Westminster Hospital, and published according to their request : to which are added, tables of symptoms / by Alex. P. Buchan. 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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    freedmen, who performed the operative department of surgery under the direction and control of their masters. It is equally foreign to my purpose, and unconnected with the object of this ad- dress, to trace the various revolutions of physic and surgery that have occurred during some previous centuries, still less to estimate the relative importance of these departments of the profession^ which in- deed do not admit of being, and never ought to be placed in opposition to each, other. It may, however, be observed, that, since the epoch of the introduction of fire arms into the practice of warfare, the art of surgery has greatly risen in general estimation, as well as in efficient utility. The consequences of a wound inflicted by the violent impingement of a metallic pro- jectile, impelled by the force of gunpow-