A dissertation on the treatment of morbid local affections of nerves ... / by Joseph Swan.

  • Joseph Swan
Date:
1820
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    dicine and surgery either to pass over it entirely, or if they have been induced to advert to it at all, not to give it that par- ticular and accurate consideration which its importance well deserves. The reason why every thing at present relating to the diseases of nerves is so very uncertain, and our best method of practice in those cases so very undetermined, is, because our knowledge respecting the changes the nervous system undergoes in injuries and diseases, is in a great measure theoretical. F.or though the anatomy of this system, as I have already observed, has engaged the attention of many men of the highest ability in the profession, and is well exhibit- ed in books, it is only when it comes to be more generally cultivated, and more fre- quent and more accurate experiments have been made, that our practice will then be
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