Observations on the surgical anatomy of the head and neck : illustrated by cases and engravings / by Allan Burns.

Date:
1811
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Observations on the surgical anatomy of the head and neck : illustrated by cases and engravings / by Allan Burns. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    servations before the Public, with an anxious wish that they may prove useful to the Student and young Surgeon, for whom they are chiefly intended* They may, perhaps, lead him to com- bine circumstances, and to judge from these how far an operation would be advisable, in any in- dividual case; or they may put him on his guard against undertaking rashly, an operation, with which, had he been better acquainted with the group of parts concerned, he would prudently have declined interfering. If, indeed, in any way, he find them useful to him, I shall not view the time employed in arranging them as mispent. Glasgow, 10th October, 1811.
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