A second essay on burns, in which an attempt is made to refute the opinions of Mr Earle and Sir W. Farquhar lately advanced on the supposed benefit of the application of ice in such accidents : with cases and communications confirming the principles and practice brought forward in a former essay.

  • Kentish, Edward, -1832
Date:
1800
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Credit: A second essay on burns, in which an attempt is made to refute the opinions of Mr Earle and Sir W. Farquhar lately advanced on the supposed benefit of the application of ice in such accidents : with cases and communications confirming the principles and practice brought forward in a former essay. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    [ *3 ] fubjed had not fallen into the hands of Mr Earle, although it had been publifhed near three years previoufly to his, and had gone through the rou- tine of reviewers both medical and literary : for as I have therein endeavoured to maintain a theory and a praBice founded on incontrovertible fads, diametrically oppofite to thofe wifhed to be efta- blifhed by Mr Earle, I have no doubt he would have noticed my effay had it come within the fphere of his reading. I have not the pleafure of Mr Earle’s acquain- tance, and I hope he will excufe any liberty I may appear to take in criticifmg the principles of his effay, as nothing perfonal can be meant: but in a matter of fuch importance, where the interefts of humanity are* at Hake, in fixing the rules of fur- gery on the broad bafis of the immutable laws of nature, filence or falfe delicacy would be highly criminal. The art of furgery has been neceffary fince the creation of man, and the laws of the animal ceco- nomy have always been the fame ; but the know- ledge of thefe laws is even yet partial and imperfed. Some of them have been feen darkly by fome ob- fervers; but even thofe glimmerings have vanifhed with the individuals, fo that in a great meafure each perfon has had to go over the lame ground : but in thefe later times, fince the art of writing, of printing.