Injuries and diseases of nerves and their surgical treatment / by Anthony A. Bowlby.

  • Bowlby, Anthony A. (Anthony Alfred), Sir, 1855-1929.
Date:
1889
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Credit: Injuries and diseases of nerves and their surgical treatment / by Anthony A. Bowlby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    tli(- patients under their care, 1 could never liave profitably studied tlie clinical aspect of my subject. I have, however, not only described the cases observed by myself, but have endeavoured as far as possible to give due weight to the opinions and writings of others. This, indeed, was very necessary in dealing with some of the more rare affections in which my own experience was but scanty and insufficient, and I have therefore supplemented it by quoting cases derived from various sources. But, although I am indebted to many writers, it is to the works of Dr. Weir jNIitchell that my acknowledgments of a,ssistance are especially due. I have found his book on Injuries of Nerves, published in 1872, so full of accurate observation and so complete in its realistic descriptions, that after the lapse of seventeen years there is but little of value to add to those parts of the subject he has made so peculiarly his own. In other respects, however, our knowledge of the pathology, clinical aspects and treatment of injuries of the nerves has made considerable advances, and although in some directions there is yet room for much further work, i ]mye thought that an account of cases observed by myself, and an attempt to summarize our know- ledge of this branch of surger}'. might be of interest to members of the medical profession. I am well aware that with further experience than I have yet had the book miglit become much more perfect than it is ; but inasmuch as most of the work is already as complete as I can hope to make it, I have thought it best to delay no longer. The illustrations are from drawings by the late Mr. T. Godart, and the blocks for printing have been prepared by the Illustrated Medical New^s Company. My best thanks are due to my friend and colleague, Mr. DWrcy Power, for much valuable advice, and for his assistance in correcting the proof-sheets. ANTHONY A. BOWLBY. 43 Queen Anne .Street, Ortuher 7, 18S9.