New diseases : the rabies piratica, its history, symptoms, & cure : also, the furor Hippocraticus, or Graeco-mania, with its treatment / by Bryan Crowther.
- Bryan Crowther
- Date:
- 1810
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: New diseases : the rabies piratica, its history, symptoms, & cure : also, the furor Hippocraticus, or Graeco-mania, with its treatment / by Bryan Crowther. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![contemptible as it will appear ridiculous I will ex])lain, by adverting to one of J.C.’s authorities, how far he is capable of misre- presentation, and let the reader judge. In their never-to~he-forgotten appendix, page 271, second edition, J. C. says, “that there is certainly a ^ falling in of the hip be- hind,’ is neither denied nor disputed. Mr. Crowther, in his book, page 278, admits that * the falling in of the nates, or hip behind, is one of the characteristics of the hip-disease, properly represented in Mr. Ford’s first en- graving,’ and well copied in Mr. Crowther’s third plate.” In my book, to which he has referred, he has wilfully misrepresented the passage. It is thus—“ The elongation of the thigh, the extenuation of the limb, and the falling in of the nates behind, are characteristically represented in Mr. Ford’s first engraving, in which it is proper to observe that there is no mark of suppuration.” Messrs. .T. C. and T. Copeland, as gentlemen true to (he text, will furnish us with the Geek for the word before. Is it to be found in J. C.’s “ con amore' edition of the aphorisms of Hippocrates ?](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22391113_0020.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
