Some lectures by Sir George E. Paget / edited from MSS. ; with a memoir by Charles E. Paget.

  • George Edward Paget
Date:
1893
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Credit: Some lectures by Sir George E. Paget / edited from MSS. ; with a memoir by Charles E. Paget. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    one. The happy circumstance of being able to obtain the opinions of others more competent to judge, and on whose judgement I could confidently rely, has relieved me from my embarrassment. Supported by their opinions, the risk of publishing has been taken. While the text of the several sheets of manuscripts has been carefully retained, it has been necessary, here and there, to connect mere notes and so make them form a part of the text. The same remark applies equally to the several illustrative cases referred to in the manuscripts. The manuscripts themselves were all admirably arranged, but additional notes and remarks had evidently been inserted among them from time to time; still, the places where these were to be used were most carefully indicated. Thus the lectures, so far as they are now published, may be considered to have been nearly completed. But it is far from certain that they are finished lec- tures. In several particulars I am sure that they are not so complete as their author would have made them had he lived. They are wanting in some points which
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