Volume 1

Observations on some important points in the practice of military surgery, and in the arrangement and police of hospitals, illustrated by cases and dissections / by John Hennen.

  • Hennen, John, 1779-1828.
Date:
1818
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Observations on some important points in the practice of military surgery, and in the arrangement and police of hospitals, illustrated by cases and dissections / by John Hennen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DR ee ee ante ene OBSERVATIONS: _- SOME IMPORTANT POINTS’ 3 | OF MILITARY SURGERY, &e. i a] ‘ INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. A very few years have elapsed since Military Sur- gery was at so low an ebb in England, that one of the most able and enthusiastic medical philosophers which thé country ever produced, has made the following observations on the subject, ‘* Practice, *“ not precept, seemed to be the guide of all wha * studied in this branch ; and, if we observe the ** practice hitherto pursued, we shall find it very cons « fined, being hardly reduced to the common rules “ of surgery, and therefore it was hardly necessary \ « for a man to be a surgeon to practise in the army.”? .. This opinion of Mr Hunter, who was himself an army surgeon, little as it flatters his predecessors, we come to investigate the cause of this deficiency |