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Plain concise practical remarks, on the treatment of wounds and fractures
Plain concise practical remarks on the treatment of wounds and fractures Author:John Jones Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE INTRODUCTION. To the Students, and young Practitioners in Surgery, through all America. .gentlemen, TH E following remarks and obfervations were thr... more »own together under the difadvan- tageous circumftances of ill health, and a variety of occupations, which allowed little leifure for compofition, and I flatter myfelf the apparent neceffity for fome immediate produo tion of this nature, will apologize for thofe de- feds which a difcerning reader will readily dif- covcr: Jf any of you, by obferving the following rules, fhould fave the life, or even limb of but one citizen, who has bravely expofed him- felf in defence of his country, I fhall think myfelf richly rewarded for my labour. Jn the mean time, inftead of attempting an idle panegyric upon the moft ufeful of all arts, permit me to point out to you fome of the moft efTential duties and qualifications of a good Surgeon ; the proper requifites of which refpedable character, are only to be found in a liberal education, fur- nifbing every means of acquiring that knowledge, which muft be ripened by experience, and graced by the conftant pradice of attention, tendernefs, and humanity. A judicious furgeon will always find his powers and abilities of v ' affiftingaffifting the wretched, proportionable to the time he has fpent, and the pains he has beftowed in acquiring the proper knowledge of his pro- feffion.—In moft European countries, an invidious diftinction has prevailed, between Phyfic and Surgery; but in this part of the world, the two profeffions are generally united;—indeed both the branches of medicine, are, in the very nature of things, fo intimately connected, as not to admit of abfolute feparation, without manifcft injury to each. As a curious and interefting fact in the hiftory of Surgery may ferve to illuf- tr...« less