Volume 1
Observations on that disorder of the corner of the eye, commonly called fistula lachrymalis / by Percivall Pott.
- Percivall Pott
- Date:
- 1758
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Observations on that disorder of the corner of the eye, commonly called fistula lachrymalis / by Percivall Pott. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![\ ' [ Vi ] It may pofjtbly he thought foreign to my prefent purpofe, hut I cannot omit this opportunity of adding a few words on a fubjeCt which appears to me highly deferring of fame notice, as its influence may he very extenflve and very prejudicial j it is the falfe idea which the by-ftanders at an operation generally have of chirurgic dexterity j to which word they annex no other idea than that of quicknefs : this has pro- duced a mofl abfurd cuftom of meafurmg the motion of a fargeons hand\ as jock¬ eys do that of the feet of a horfe, viz, by a flop-watch ; a practice which tho* it may perhaps have been encouraged by operators themfelvesy muft have been productive of mofl mifchievous confe- quences s tute et celeriter are both very proper charaCteriftics of a good chirurgic operation; but tute ftands as it fhould do in the fir ft place, and the patient who puffers the fmalleft injury from the hurry of his operator has no recompence from the reputation which the latter obtains 7 from](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30785406_0001_0006.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
