Surgical observations on the constitutional origin and treatment of local diseases and on aneurisms / by John Abernethy.

  • John Abernethy
Date:
1809
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Credit: Surgical observations on the constitutional origin and treatment of local diseases and on aneurisms / by John Abernethy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    Ie6lecl and examined, as to render a moic ml* mute ddcriptlon of them unnecelliuy. If dileafcs could, like other objects which vve mean to delineate, he placed in varujus points of view, and Illuminated at pleafuie, fo as to fliew dilHndly their diflerent parts, one ac- curate reprefentation would fudice j but we ice them obfcurely, and as knowledge in- creafes, it ferves, like light fhining from dif- ferent places, to illumiitatc the various parts of the objeds of our examination. For, as I have expreffed it in the fir/1 edi- tion of thefe writings, “ in j)roportion as we advance in knowledge, we are led to remark many circumitances in the progrefs of a diforder which had lx;fore ])airal without notice j but which, if known and duly at- tended to, would clearly ])oint out the na- ture of the complaint. Hence the records of former cafes are of much lefs value; as the fymptoms about which we are now anxious to enquire, have in them been entirely over- looked.” It, therefore, becomes necelfary that each writer Ihould ffate thofe circum- ffances to which he lias been particularly au , tentivcj