Observations on the nature and treatment of the variolous abscess, with remarks on the modern practice of inoculation, and a review of the principal writers on that important subject ... in a letter to Dr. Buchan / By Peter Clare.

  • Peter Clare
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1781
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    I iv ] undertakes another.. He further obferve*, *f that the only means by which true and ufeful knowledge is to be obtained in every part of furgery, are a competent knowledge of the anatomical ftrudture of the human frame, a clofe attention to the fymptoms of difeafes in the living, and a minute examination of the appear- ances in the dead : thefe are the great foun- tains of all medical knowledge. Mr. Pott has here pointed out, in a very judicious manner, the path which every chirurgical pradtitioner and writerjhould purfue, who undertakes to explain the true nature, feat, and cure of any bodily diforder. Chancery-Lane, January i, 1783, Table