An introduction to a course of lectures on the operations of surgery / by Thomas Chevalier.

  • Thomas Chevalier
Date:
1806
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Credit: An introduction to a course of lectures on the operations of surgery / by Thomas Chevalier. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    liiust be confessed that there are many writci-s on all the branches of medicine, whose Avorks are not worth the perusal; so that a man who should undertake to 'read every thhig, would employ much of his time to a very un])rofitabl;- purpose. It is therefore proper for a student to have the advice of some person able to in- form him what books he should read, and what parts of them are most worthy of remark. FcTr reading is essential to much improvement. Ai^s longa; Vita breois—The life of one man, however long, and hoAv extensive soever his opportunities, is much too short, and his powers are much too limited, to investigate every thing for himself. We all are, and all must be, indebted to the labours of others. More especially is it incumbent on the young- practitioner to gain all the advantage he can from this source, and to supply his own want of experience by collecting that of other men, and thus storing his mind with the knoAvledge they have acquired. It' is true ' that reading, without personal and careful observation, will do -but very little for prac- tice; but joined vnth. it, it may do very much, and furni&h you with resources you could not derive solely from yourselves. Rules are laid down by the most esteemed writers ou