Copy 1, Volume 2

Practical observations on the treatment of strictures in the urethra, and in the oesophagus / [Sir Everard Home].

  • Home, Everard, Sir, 1756-1832
Date:
1803-1821
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Credit: Practical observations on the treatment of strictures in the urethra, and in the oesophagus / [Sir Everard Home]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    While I am thus affording materials for the assistance of those surgeons, whose ana- tomical education and professional acquire- ments qualify them for following the mode of treatment I have recommended, I wish to deter others, who from a want of these ad- vantages are not adequate to the task, and whomay be led, by.a temerity too often an at- tendant.upon ignorance, to use more violence than the. parts will bear, and: increase the sufferings. of the patient, at the same time that they are throwing, a discredit upon the practice it was. their intention. to,recommend and support. | __ It is not my intention to notice, in general, any of the publications in which my obser- vations on this subject have been. opposed: I have.no wish to enter into’ controversy, and am very well satisfied, that the public should judge between us by an impartial considera~ tion of. our works. But Mr. Benjamin Bell of Edinburgh, in a work upon the Venereal Disease, has gone so far as to caution the . public against this mode of operation, by