Lectures on anatomy, surgery, and pathology; including observations on the nature and treatment of local diseases. Delivered at St. Bartholomew's Hospital / John Abernethy.

  • Abernethy, John, 1764-1831.
Date:
1828
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Credit: Lectures on anatomy, surgery, and pathology; including observations on the nature and treatment of local diseases. Delivered at St. Bartholomew's Hospital / John Abernethy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LECTURES SURGERY, &c. SURGERY and Medicine are essentially, what the French Republic was declared to be, “ one and indivisible.” Custom, however, has separated them into two parts, and I have now to speak of those diseases of which surgeons undertake the ma- nagement. These are, for the most part, external injuries, such as are the result of accident, or such as require operations ; but you will find these external diseases often arise from con- stitutional causes, and where a disease arises from the state of the general health, you must remove the cause before you can cure it. Again, when they arise from accident, you will find that local disease will disturb the whole constitution ; conse- quently, if I were to begin to speak of local disease, in the first instance, I should be perpetually adverting to the general system, and it will be better therefore that I should first direct. your attention to the nature of the constitutional affections © which are produced, or which may be produced by local dis- eases. ‘These constitutional affections having been previously considered, the subject of local diseases will be rendered simple, and a great deal of repetition will thus be saved. I may truly affirm, that this view of the subject was never clearly set forth until the time of Mr. Hunrer ; he was the first surgeon who treated of the constitutional symptoms produced by local dis- ease, and no one who pretends to study surgery should omit reading, and endeavouring to understand, his work on this B