Surgical observations on tumours, and on lumbar abscesses / By John Abernethy.

  • John Abernethy
Date:
1816
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Surgical observations on tumours, and on lumbar abscesses / By John Abernethy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    15/236 page 5
    * or TuMmoURS. § diseases of arteries, veins, glands, tendons, joints, and bones, brought together under one order, and designated by the same name of tumours. Some of these also are merely enlargements of natural parts; whilst others are entirely new productions, having no ex- istence in the original composition of the body. Wehave, I believe, sufficient know- ledge of the nature of these diseases to class them more scientifically; and as this has not yet, as faras I know*, been done, I shall endeavour to supply the deficiency. In the definition which I mean to give of tumours, I shall trespass as much against the usual import of the word, as nosologists have hitherto done in their classifications against the nature of the disease. For I shall restrict the surgical signification of the word ‘ Tu- mour” to such swellings as arise from some new production, which made no part of the * Plenck published, 1767, a work intitled * Seat Tumorum,” which I have not seen, but I conclude that it does not resemble the present attempt; since no arrange- ment, like that which I have made, is to be met with j in the Encyclopédie Methodique. BS origina |
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3