A sketch of the principles and practice of subcutaneous surgery : being the oration delivered before the Medical Society of London at their eighty-fourth anniversary, March 9, 1857 / by William Adams.

  • William Adams
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1857
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Credit: A sketch of the principles and practice of subcutaneous surgery : being the oration delivered before the Medical Society of London at their eighty-fourth anniversary, March 9, 1857 / by William Adams. 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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    {From the Medical Times and Gazette, August 1st, 1857. Professor Syme and Mb. Square on the Subcutaneous Removal op loose Cartilages. [To the editor of the Medical Times and Gazette.] Sir,—I shall be obliged by your publishing the following extract from a letter addressed to me by Professor Syme, dated July 13, 1857 :— With reference to what you say in the Medical Times and Gazette of Saturday last as to my having adopted the subcutaneous method of removing cartilaginous bodies at the suggestion of Mr. Liston, and with a modification proposed by him, I beg to inform you that this operation was an original idea of my own, and was communicated by me to Mr. Liston, before any account of M. Goyrand's procedure had reached this country. During a temporary estrangement which hap- pened between us subsequently, Mr. Liston published a letter to Sir P. Crampton, giving the sole merit to M. Goyrand. But in the Edin- burgh Monthly Journal for March, 1841, and in my contributions to the Pathology and Practice of Surgery, published in 1847, at page 282, you will find an account of my first operation, which was performed in the Royal Infirmary, on February 1, 1841. It appears from this extract that Professor Syme first conceived the idea and performed the operation; and to him, therefore, the claim of originality is justly due.—I am, &c, William John Square, Surgeon to the South Devon and East Cornwall Hospital. Plymouth, July 25, 1857. (From the Medical Times and Gazette, August 22nd, 1857 J Professor Syme's Claim to the Operation op removing loose Cartilages by Subcutaneous Incision. [To the Editor of the Medical Times and Gazette.] Sir,—In the Medical Times and Gazette, 1st August, 1857, Mr. Square, of Plymouth, has published an extract from a letter addressed to him by Professor Syme, of Edinburgh, in which Mr. Syme claims the originality of suggesting and performing the subcutaneous opera- tion for the removal of loose cartilages ; an operation of great practical importance, because by it a perfectly harmless procedure (when the conditions necessary to prevent inflammation in subcutaneous operations are fulfilled) is substituted for a very dangerous operation, which has