On varicose disease of the lower extremities and its allied disorders : skin discoloration, induration, and ulcer : being the Lettsomian Lectures delivered before the Medical Society of London in 1867 / by John Gay.

  • Gay, John, 1812-1885.
Date:
1868
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Credit: On varicose disease of the lower extremities and its allied disorders : skin discoloration, induration, and ulcer : being the Lettsomian Lectures delivered before the Medical Society of London in 1867 / by John Gay. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    However, through the obliging help of my friends Dr. Randall, of St. Mary’s, and Mr. Fuller, his able coadjutor at the Marylebone Infirmary, and the late Mr. Clarke, of Shoreditch, I succeeded in obtaining opportunities of making a few dissections as well as some experiments, which I trust will be found to have contributed somewhat to the end proposed. Of these opportunities I availed myself to the best of my time and ability; and to the observations which I recorded, and the inferences which I have been enabled satisfactorily to my own mind to arrive at, it is my purpose to call your attention. If I should fail to convince you of the soundness of my con- clusions, I think I shall at all events succeed in recording some observations that have the value of being transcripts, as far as they go, and it was in my power to render them, of their dead or living originals; and, what will be of still more consequence, in calling renewed attention to a disease which seriously affects both rich and poor:—the one by prohibiting beyond certain limits useful and invigorating exercise, the other by too often reducing the hard-working labourer, long before his day is done, to infirmity and the workhouse. In extenuation of the many defects which will be found in these lectures, I must be allowed to plead a general paucity of those qualifications which are essential to the successful prosecution of an inquiry such as that upon which I have entered. It is said of Mozart that he preferred to perform before the masters of his art rather than before his disciples. I venture to take courage from the practical sagacity of this great musician, assured that my efforts will find in my audience the indulgence I am too sure they will need.