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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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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    may cost the patient a limb, or even his life. Upon these considerations, 1 have been induced to bring into a small compass the heads of my Lectures, in order to assist the gentlemen who attend them in their endeavours to avoid the evils which an im¬ perfect knowledge of my views may occa¬ sion. ' The work, containing these heads, I now offer to their notice, under the title “ Syllabus,” to the matter of which they might easily append the facts and observa¬ tions which I relate to them in detail; and I am disposed to believe that they will find in it sufficient to enable them to bear in mind the principles and the practice which I have from time to time to lay before them. • • . j < I have frequently observed that gentle¬ men, who have made themselves acquainted with many of the principles, which as far as I know are original with myself, have