Surgical observations on injuries of the head ... / by John Abernethy.

  • John Abernethy
Date:
1815
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Credit: Surgical observations on injuries of the head ... / by John Abernethy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    though thefe writers unite in cenfuring the frequency of the pra6lice, they are very far from being agreed in other refpedts j and many material points feem to me to require Hill further elucidation. Believing that the obfervations, which I have had an opportunity of making at* St. Bartholomew’s Hofpital, enable me to throw fome light on this important and in- tricate fubjecl, I am induced to fubmit to the public a fhort account of feveral cafes that occurred there, and the inferences which 1 drew from them. The difficulties connected with this part of furgery are Efficiently proved by this circum- ftance, that, notwithftanding it has at all times excited the attention of furgeons of the greateft talents, and poffeffing the moH exten- five field for obfervation, much difference of opinion ftill fubfifts, and the practice that ought to be followed in particular cafes yet remains a matter of difpule. It is not, indeed, probable, that any part of medical fcience