Lectures on inflammation : exhibiting a view of the general doctrines, pathological and practical, of medical surgery / by John Thomson.

  • Thomson, John, 1765-1846.
Date:
1831
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    ANDREW WOOD, ESQUIRE, SENIOR MEMBER OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF EDINBURGH, ONE OF THE MANAGERS OF TOE ROYAL INFIRMARY, &c. &c &c. Dear Sir, The following publication contains the introductory part of a course of Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Surgery, which by your advice I was encouraged to under- take, and to which the Royal College of Surgeons have since been pleased to grant their patronage, by an appointment which has laid me under the deepest obligations of duty and gratitude. By printing this part of my Lectures, I wish to leave myself time in future for the discussion of various important practical points in surgery, which the limited term of our academical session has obliged me hitherto either to omit altogether, or to consider only in a very brief and superficial way. I have published these Lectures also with the hope that they may be useful to those students, who, in entering upon the study of the medical profession, are desirous of obtaining more exten-