Surgical observations : containing a classification of tumours, with cases to illustrate the history of each species : an account of diseases which strikingly resemble the venereal disease : and various cases illustrative of different surgical subjects / by John Abernethy, F.R.S., honorary member of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh.

  • Abernethy, John, 1764-1831.
Date:
1804
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Credit: Surgical observations : containing a classification of tumours, with cases to illustrate the history of each species : an account of diseases which strikingly resemble the venereal disease : and various cases illustrative of different surgical subjects / by John Abernethy, F.R.S., honorary member of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    taught It for fome years in my Ledures in the manner exhibited in the following pages. I am far, however, from being faiisfied with the method which I have adopted, but it is the beil that I have been able to devife ; and, at leaft, it has this utility, that it admits of a number of important cafes being arranged in a perfpicuous manner, and prevents that ob- fcurity which a total want of order necelTarily creates. My motives for laying this paper before th@ Public are ; firft, a convidion, that an ex- tenfive knov/ledge of this fubjed, fuch a know- ledge as would lead to an attempt at claf- fification, and to afcertaining the peculiarities which charaderize the different fpecies of tumours, can only be obtained by thofe who have very ample opportunities of obfervaiion. But it is probable that, when the fubjed in general has been furveyed, and its parts pointed oat, that thofe parts maybe difcriminatcd and examine J v^^ith accuracy and advantage, by perfons who have not had opportunities of contemplating the whole. 2dly, The minds