Snag Surgery Two Hundred Years Ago: Illustrated From Original Copper Plates (Classic Reprint) Prepared By Unknown Accessible In Publication

from Surgery Two Hundred Years Ago: Illustrated From Original Copper Plates

Were Hippocrates, Heister, Greenfield, Franco or Douglass to witness operations which are now common under anaesthesia, they would stand amazed at their comparatively limited conception Of the human powers Of resistance or endurance.


Still it is not to be overlooked that, considering their environment, the crudeness of their appli auces, and their imperfect knowledge of anatomy, there were Giants in those days, who pursued their heroic calling with all the bravery, ardor, and self abnegation which mark their modern con freres.
And they were the forerunners, too, even with their primitive instruments and methods, of many of the Operations which are the light and glory of modern surgery.


It is rather to the perfection Of the instruments used and to the better knowledge Of methods of Operating, than to new and distinctly original surgery, that our present era may lay claim to preeminence.


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