Practical Observations in Surgery and Morbid Anatomy; Illustrated by Cases, with Dissections and Engravings

We have seen many persons who had travelled from *s Dan to Beersheba"?nay, who had circumvolved the greater part of this globe, without meeting a single incident that could elicit a remark?a single object that could excite a sensation beyond what would have been felt at their own fire-sides at home. So in the medical world, we daily observe men who have been, year after year, in full practice, without encountering a disease that required the exertion of a thought, beyond the number of draughts, or size of mixtures to be thrown in; without seeing a phenomenon beyond the pale of Cullen's descriptions ;