The Hunterian Oration, delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons ... 1821 / [Thomas Chevalier].

  • Thomas Chevalier
Date:
1823
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    For that thirst after universal empire, which the demolition of Carthage, and the conquest of Greece, only served to inflame ; and that contempt of suffering and death, with which the constant pursuit of that object was connected, and which a false and sullen philosophy inculcated and extolled as a chief perfection of human nature, were but little favourable to the advancement of Surgery in Rome. It was not till the time of Julius Caesar that its professors there emerged above a state of servile degra- dation. Many Surgeons of merit must, however, have flourished; and there were some whom Celsus has called, non medio-- cres professores, by whom various improve- ments in practice were introduced. But in the time of Celsus, as for a long period afterward, Surgery could boast of nothing beyond an empirical character: nor, except what is to be found in the work which he himself composed, do the records of that wonderful state furnish any thing relating ' to it, on which we can dwell with satis- faction.
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