The Hunterian Oration: Delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, on the 14th of February, 1879On Dr. Hunter's work and methods. |
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... Principles of Surgery without a renewal of the feeling that it is the most comprehen- sive , the most philosophic , and the best exposition of the subject ever yet written , the work which it is the most profitable to read , the one ...
... Principles of Surgery without a renewal of the feeling that it is the most comprehen- sive , the most philosophic , and the best exposition of the subject ever yet written , the work which it is the most profitable to read , the one ...
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... health and disease , in variety and reparation . It was the centre about which his thoughts re- volved ; and it forms the leading idea in all his works , in his Principles of Surgery , no less than in ΙΟ THE HUNTERIAN ORATION .
... health and disease , in variety and reparation . It was the centre about which his thoughts re- volved ; and it forms the leading idea in all his works , in his Principles of Surgery , no less than in ΙΟ THE HUNTERIAN ORATION .
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... Principles of Surgery , no less than in his treatises on the blood and other physiological subjects . It is made the connecting link which binds anatomy , phy- siology , pathology , and surgery inseparably together . No man has taken so ...
... Principles of Surgery , no less than in his treatises on the blood and other physiological subjects . It is made the connecting link which binds anatomy , phy- siology , pathology , and surgery inseparably together . No man has taken so ...
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... principles , of matter might be , he considered Life to be one of them or akin to them ; and his reasoning about it is highly interesting . He speaks of it , in one place , as " the principle of self - preservation ; preventing matter ...
... principles , of matter might be , he considered Life to be one of them or akin to them ; and his reasoning about it is highly interesting . He speaks of it , in one place , as " the principle of self - preservation ; preventing matter ...
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... principle to the ordinary properties of matter ; and he was under no temptation to strain his views beyond the horizon which bounded them for the sensation of gratifying some persons and startling and alarming others . Had he lived now ...
... principle to the ordinary properties of matter ; and he was under no temptation to strain his views beyond the horizon which bounded them for the sensation of gratifying some persons and startling and alarming others . Had he lived now ...
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