Observations on some of the general principles and on the particular nature and treatment of the different species of inflammation : being, with additions, the subject of an essay to which the Jacksonian Prize, for the year 1818, was adjudged by the Royal College of Surgeons / by J. H. James.
- James, J. H.
- Date:
- 1821
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Credit: Observations on some of the general principles and on the particular nature and treatment of the different species of inflammation : being, with additions, the subject of an essay to which the Jacksonian Prize, for the year 1818, was adjudged by the Royal College of Surgeons / by J. H. James. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![rant the intrusion of myself on their at- tention. I have with some freedom, but I hope also with diffidence and scruple, objected to the opinions of others, where they have appeared to be founded on insufficient grounds, let those opinions be what they may ; being con- vinced that nothing has been so great an obstacle to the improvement of science, as the partiality or obsequious regard which men have been apt to pay to great autho- rities*; nor can I believe that it is to be wanting in respect to our predecessors, or in deference to our cotemporaries, to do so; for being in search of truth, I know they will with pleasure embrace every unpre- judiced attempt to discover it-]-/' When an author has to advert frequently to the opinions of another, and perhaps for * Leake on Child-bed Fever. Preface, p. 17. t Kirkland. Med. Siir., vol. i. p. 249.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21288343_0030.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
