A surgical revival : the inaugural address delivered on October 4th, 1894, on the opening of the fifty-sixth session of the Liverpool Medical Institution / by Chauncy Puzey.

  • Puzey, Chauncy, 1841-1916.
Date:
1895
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Credit: A surgical revival : the inaugural address delivered on October 4th, 1894, on the opening of the fifty-sixth session of the Liverpool Medical Institution / by Chauncy Puzey. 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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    string is tied round the neck of a bag. And all here must admit that a large number of the modern, more especially the intra-abdominal, operations could never have succeeded without these aseptic animal sutures. Gentlemen,—I hope you will consider that the fact that this is its twenty-fifth anniversary, and that it was first tested on the human subject in this city, by one of our past presidents, is a justification for my occupying your time this evening with a retrospect which to myself has been an interesting holiday task, and will, I hope, have been not without interest to those whom I have had the honour to address.