Some few general remarks on fractures and dislocations / By Percivall Pott.

  • Percivall Pott
Date:
1769
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Credit: Some few general remarks on fractures and dislocations / By Percivall Pott. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( 6 ) been, men of particular ingenuity, who have deviated from the common methods, and have greatly improved the art; but ftill the common methods are the fame, and the multitude of practitioners religioufly follow them. Let me not therefore be charged with prefumption or arrogance, if I fay, that under almolt every of the foregoing heads the practice is capable of coniiderable improvements; improvements which would fhow rationality and fenfe in the furgeon, and produce eafe and convenience to the patient. I am aware that fome of my readers may be inclined to charge we with affeCting to deviate from the commonly prefcribed rules, and to contradict opinions, which a great length of time, and a long fucceffion of writers have given fanction to. “ Imberbes didicere, fenes perdendafateri,’* * 1 / is a hard lelfon fometimes to human vanity, and what requires fome degree of candor to learn. But, on the other hand, if it was not now and then praCtifed, I know not how fuch an art as furgery (whofe balls is experience) could ever be improved. Oiar anceflors
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