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Lectures on surgical pathology : delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England / by James Paget.

  • James Paget
Date:
1853
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Credit: Lectures on surgical pathology : delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England / by James Paget. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    subject, it seemed well to let them determine, also, the method, and to adopt that which was most natm-al to one engaged in the simultaneous practice of surgery and teaching of physiology. Thus guided, I designed to give lectures which might illustrate the general pathology of the principal surgical diseases, in conformity with the larger and more exact doctrines of physiology; and the plan seemed the more reasonable, because it was in accordance with the constant design of the great founder of the Museum. The Museum limited, while it indicated, the subjects of the Lectures. They were, therefore, not constructed to form a system of surgical pathology : several subjects, which might fill considerable places in such a system, were scarcely alluded-to in them ; and, although I have added some Lectures, which could not be conveniently included in any of the courses, yet I have not gone beyond the range of such pathology as a Museum may illustrate. The wood-engravings are, for the most part, copied from the same specimens and drawings as were the diagrams used in the Lectures ; and I wish them to be regarded as intended for only the same purpose as such diagrams may serve ; viz. that of assisting the more difficult parts of the descriptions of the objects to which they refer. I have endeavoured to make the Lectures less incomplete, and more correct, by the aid of numerous facts ascertained
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