Observations on the preservation of hearing, and on the choice, use, and abuse of acoustic instruments ... / [John Harrison Curtis].

  • John Curtis
Date:
1839
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Credit: Observations on the preservation of hearing, and on the choice, use, and abuse of acoustic instruments ... / [John Harrison Curtis]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Prince of Violinists, as an exemplification of this remark. Few, I apprehend, will deny that surgery has been greatly benefited by being sepa- rated from medicine; for, in an art where manual dexterity is absolutely essential to the safe and expeditious performance of dif- ficult operations, every one must perceive that such dexterity can be acquired only by daily practice. The surgeon was originally merely the servant of the physician. Medi- cine, in early times, was chiefly practised by the ministers of religion; and, as the sacer- dotal character did not permit them to have connexion with blood, the surgeon was called in as their attendant, to perform those operations which the sacredness of their functions did not allow them themselves to execute. Thus, the first step towards improvement was the practice of surgery getting into the hands of the laity, and being exercised as a distinct profession. Surgery has since been subdivided into many branches, with much benefit to the community. Who has not heai-d of the difierence between dental surgery now and
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