A syllabus of surgical lectures on the nature and treatment of fractures, diseases of the joints, and deformities of the limbs and spine. Containing descriptions of the modes of applying twelve new apparatuses, illustrated by twelve plates ... / [Joseph Amesbury].

  • Amesbury, Joseph, 1795-1864
Date:
1827
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A syllabus of surgical lectures on the nature and treatment of fractures, diseases of the joints, and deformities of the limbs and spine. Containing descriptions of the modes of applying twelve new apparatuses, illustrated by twelve plates ... / [Joseph Amesbury]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. The constitution of the human mind is such, that it cannot always, unassisted, re¬ tain the connexion which exists between even the plainest principles which a teacher may endeavour to inculcate. It is, how¬ ever, of the utmost importance, in many instances, that our notions should be clear and properly arranged; and in no art or science is this more necessary than in the art and science of surgery—without correct ideas our judgments cannot be sound, nor are we likely to conduct, to fa¬ vourable terminations, the cases which we are called upon to treat. In surgery we know that a single misconception may lead to false inferences, which, if acted upon, a 2