The Hunterian oration on British military surgery in the time of Hunter and in the Great War : delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons of England on February 14th, 1919, the anniversary of Hunter's birth / by Sir Anthony Bowlby.
- Bowlby, Anthony A. (Anthony Alfred), Sir, 1855-1929.
- Date:
- 1919
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The Hunterian oration on British military surgery in the time of Hunter and in the Great War : delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons of England on February 14th, 1919, the anniversary of Hunter's birth / by Sir Anthony Bowlby. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![4G work done in resuscitating the badly wounded and in the intravenous administration of blood or of alternative fluids to men who had suffered from severe luemorrliaQ^e. Conclusion. And now let me recall to your attention a phrase of Hunter’s which I read to you at the beginning of this address. It [the appointment of the Belleisle Expedition] drew my attention to inflammation in general, and enabled me to make observations which have formed the basis of the present treatise.” The war was to him not merely a sphere for the exercise of his surgical skid, but also an opportunity for observing and studying conditions of which he had hitherto had no experience. What has this war been to the surgeons of the present day? It may truly be said that very many of them, and in all parts of the world, have entered into this work imbued with the spirit of our great master. To them it has not only afforded immense opportunities of helping their fellow countrymen, but has also provided problems for study and for solution. The spirit has been one of progress, and of development and unwidingness to rest content with conditions that might be bettered or with methods which proved unsuitable. It is not too much to claim that each year of war has seen better surgical measures devised and consequently better results obtained. The sufferings of the wounded have](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29932476_0050.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
