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An inquiry into the present state of medical surgery; including the analogy betwixt external and internal disorders; and the inseparability of these branches of the same profession / [Thomas Kirkland].

  • Kirkland, Thomas, 1722-1798.
Date:
1783
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Credit: An inquiry into the present state of medical surgery; including the analogy betwixt external and internal disorders; and the inseparability of these branches of the same profession / [Thomas Kirkland]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    g Why not to be learned in hof] pitals. ¢ INTRODUCTION, ing from common accidents, fuch as wounds, bruifes, &c. will, by the forceof : nature, often heal, in whatever manner they are drefled; yet proper treatment will greatly facilitate their cure. There- fore, unlefs nature is, properly confulted and aflifted in the cure of chronical ulcers, not only with fuitable dreffings, but by attending to every ‘point of the fore, and to the parts about it, with precifion, the furgeon will give frequent proofs, that he has learned his bufinefs only in part. Nor indeed is it poflible for him to form any: true judgment of the appearance of an ulcer, without knowing the effects that different modes of drefling produce. | Now this kind of. inftrution is not to he expected in hofpitals in general; though great advantages, from feeing a variety of cafes, and operations, may be acquired by attending them. The number of patients drefled in a very fhort {pace of time, will not