Surgical tracts ... Consisting of I. Outlines of the history of surgery. II. An essay on inflammation and abcess. III. A dissertation on the effects of motion and rest, and their application to the purposes of surgery ... by M. David, with copious ... annotations. IV. Observations on counter-strokes. V. On the methods employed in treating cancerous diseases, including remarks on the cure of indurations of the breast / The whole collected and interspersed with occasional notes and observations by William Houlston.

  • Justamond, J. O. (John Obadiah), -1786
Date:
1789
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Credit: Surgical tracts ... Consisting of I. Outlines of the history of surgery. II. An essay on inflammation and abcess. III. A dissertation on the effects of motion and rest, and their application to the purposes of surgery ... by M. David, with copious ... annotations. IV. Observations on counter-strokes. V. On the methods employed in treating cancerous diseases, including remarks on the cure of indurations of the breast / The whole collected and interspersed with occasional notes and observations by William Houlston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    f ' ] O U T . L I N E S OF THE HISTORY O F S U R G E R Y. To thofe who would be well verfecl in the principles of Surgery, it cannot be a difagreeable talk, to trace the origin and progrefs of it from the earlieft accounts down to the prefent period; efpecially as the fir ft neceffary ftep in the purfuit of any fcience, is to become acquainted with all that has already been made known upon the fubjedh It is therefore the obje<ft of the prefent undertaking to exhibit a general fketch of the Hiftory of Surgery, and point out in a curfory manner the principal perfons who have adorned this noble art, with their practice and writings. The rrtoft ancient divifion of medicine was into Chirurgery, Diet, and Pharmacy ; the former of thefe teaches us to cure by the affiftance of our hands, and by various external applications, many diforders to which the human frame is incident, and which are not within the power of the other two branches. B In