Volume 2

A treatise on the physiology and pathology of the ear : containing a comparative view of its structure, functions, and various diseases / by John Harrison Curtis.

  • John Curtis
Date:
1831
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Credit: A treatise on the physiology and pathology of the ear : containing a comparative view of its structure, functions, and various diseases / by John Harrison Curtis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Z capable of affording effectual relief in many cases formerly considered beyond the reach of the healing art. One circumstance that for some time re- tarded the progress of surgery, was the culti- vation of anatomy by the early physicians: for instance, the great and invaluable disco- very of the circulation of the blood by the immortal Harvey, (which entirely changed the system of medicine then in vogue)—and also the discoveries of Glisson, and others of those days—had the same tendency. The physicians presided at that period in the dissecting-room, and of course took the lead in whatever re- lated to surgery, as well as medicine; but the increase of clinical practice to the physician induced him at length to abandon the dissect- ing-room. As soon as this took place, anatomy naturally fell into the hands of the surgeon, to whom it was at last solely confided. No sooner had he acquired this pre-eminence, by having the field of anatomy left to himself, than what had hitherto been regarded as little better than a manual art, expanded in its turn into an extensive branch of science, and ad- mitted of divisions equally numerous and varied as those of the department of medicine.
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