Edinburgh Journal of Medical Science (Volume 1)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1826. Excerpt: ... We here conclude our analysis of Dr Louis's researches, in the words of the commission appointed by the Royal Academy of Medicine, to report upon them. In order to communicate a proper impulse and a just direction to the study of medicine, we cannot afford too much encouragement to those men, always a very select number, who, abandoning systematic discussion to the multitude, dedicate their life to the collection of facts at the bedside of the patient, and to the investigation, after death, of the traces of the disease which has preceded or followed, and to deduce from thence, by a due comparison of facts, their rational consequences. II. PRACTICE OF SURGERY. Art. XXV.--A Practical Treatise on the Arterial System; intended to illustrate the importance of studying Anastomoses, in reference to the rationale of the new operation for Aneurism, and the surgical treatment of Hemorrhage. By ThoMas Turner, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of London; Lecturer on Anatomy; and author of Outlines of a System of Medico-Chirurgical Education, &c. &c. London 1825. The nature and object of this work is fully set forth in the title page. It is a publication evidently addressed to the student of surgery. As it is our object rather to present our readers with what is actually new in medicirte, than to take a retrospect of established principles, it is not necessary on this account, to enter into a strict analysis of the work. We merely remark, in general, that it is evidently the production of a gentleman very well acquainted with his profession. Mr Turner is a successful teacher of anatomy and surgery in Manchester, in which town no less than two schools of medicine (under the separate guidance of Mr Jordan and the author) have long been instituted. We have no ...