Modern surgery and its making : a tribute to Listerism / by C.W. Saleeby.

  • Caleb Saleeby
Date:
[1911]
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Credit: Modern surgery and its making : a tribute to Listerism / by C.W. Saleeby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    statement of the case for surgery, or by any mis- direction of the public, may gain a wider and more patient hearing than might possibly be accorded even to an illustrious and fair-minded surgeon. The public advocacy of new ideas demands endless reiteration. The repetition must be so continuous, long-maintained and if possible varied, that, at last, by the action of certain psychological sequences which are well worthy of study for their bearing upon national policy and conduct, people begin to suppose that these ideas and arguments are their own, and that the advocate is a platitudinarian. It is only when, having long thought him mad, they think him dull, that he may congratulate himself on having done his work. On certain primary aspects of Eugenics or Race-Culture, to which this pen and voice have long been dedicated, it really looks as if the public were won and even the politicians must follow. It therefore seems permissible and opportune, lest much nagging at the public ear make even the enthusiast weary, that he should turn somewhat aside for a while in order to deal with a subject which urgently demands treatment, and without the due appreciation of which even Eugenics must lose much of its value. So much may suffice, perhaps, for stating the fact that this book still needs to be written, and the cir- cumstances which have led up to the present under- taking. But something now falls to be said in reference to what we began by stating—that no satisfactory explanation is forthcoming for the absence from our libraries of any book devoted to this subject. It is not that the writing and publishing of books is almost wholly a matter of private enterprise, utterly unco-ordinated and tragically dominated
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