Lectures on hernia and its radical cure : delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in June, 1885 : with A clinical lecture on trusses and their application to ruptures, delivered at King's College Hospital / by John Wood.

  • John Wood
Date:
1886
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Credit: Lectures on hernia and its radical cure : delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in June, 1885 : with A clinical lecture on trusses and their application to ruptures, delivered at King's College Hospital / by John Wood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    clear to those less learned and less experienced. I have some fear that there is no doubt about the first, but that I may not have succeeded in the last as fully as I could have desired. At any rate, I have done the best that was in me to ascertain the exact truth about the possibility of a permanent cure of hernia, to prove it as convincingly as I was able, and to state it as simply as I could, and as shortly and completely as the scope of these lectures has demanded. The last part of my duty now presents itself, and that is to thank you, Mr. President and gentlemen, most sincerely for your presence and kindness during my lectures. [Cases of the radical cure of hernia, of twenty- three years' duration and downwards, were shown at the close of each lecture,]