A vindication of Read's patent syringe : against interested opposition and unphilosophical objections, with professional testimonials of its superior utility, and directions by which its employment is rendered easy and certain.

  • Read, John, 1760-1847
Date:
1826
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Credit: A vindication of Read's patent syringe : against interested opposition and unphilosophical objections, with professional testimonials of its superior utility, and directions by which its employment is rendered easy and certain. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    Medical and Physical Journal. N9 1 or vol. lv. ] JANUARY, 1826. [NO 323. For many fortunate discoveries in medicine, and for the detection of numerous errors, the world is indebted to the rapid circulation of Monthly Journals; and there never existed any work, t» which the Faculty, in Europe and America, were under deeper obligations, than to the Medical and Physical Journal of London, now forming a long, but an invaluable, series.—RUSH. HISTORICAL RETROSPECT. It has been customary with us, at the present season, to look back upon the path which had brought us to the close of an- other year, and to endeavour to call to mind and arrange the most prominent and interesting objects which had presented themselves to our notice. On sitting down for this purpose, and endeavouring to select some discoveries in medical science, or new applications'of previous knowledge,-—such as, by then- value and importance, might justify us in separating them from the general mass,—we have felt more strongly than on any former occasion the difficulty of accomplishing this task in a satisfactory manner. Much lias been done, when viewed in the aSS,eSate‘ Many works have been written,—many essays published,—many cases recorded ; yet, when we come to exa- mine them in the detail, we find little of pre-eminent merit, and what appeared to us most valuable we have given in various departments of former Numbers. To give the whole is impos- sible: to select where the demands are so numerous, and the claims so equal,—at best is difficult. 1 here are two objects which may be had in view in laying before our readers an Historical Retrospect: it may either no. 323. r