A treatise on diseases of the bones / By Edward Stanley.

  • Edward Stanley
Date:
1849
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Credit: A treatise on diseases of the bones / By Edward Stanley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    And I am induced to submit the work in its incomplete state, rather than detail in it characters of disease from which, in consequence of not un- derstanding them, I should not be able to deduce either pathological conclusions or indications of treatment. I venture to think that others have experienced the difficulty which I have felt, in the attempt to arrange and explain the subjects to be. compre- hended in a Treatise on the Diseases of the Bones: otherwise, in an age remarkable for the fulness of its scientific literature, it might be expected that such treatises would have been produced. But the only works possessing this character, of which I have knowledge, are the Treatises of Petit, pub- lished in 1705, and of Boyer, in 1808. The liberal feeling, which happily prevails in our profession, is manifested through the following pages, in the use that has been allowed me of the facts which others have observed. My acknowledg- ments on this head are sincerely offered to my col- leagues at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. Especially
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