Observations on the disease of the hip joint : to which are added, some remarks on white swelling of the knee, the caries of the joint of the wrist and other similar complaints : the whole illustrated by cases, and engravings taken fron the diseased parts / by the late Edward Ford.

  • Ford, Edward, 1746-1809.
Date:
1810
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Credit: Observations on the disease of the hip joint : to which are added, some remarks on white swelling of the knee, the caries of the joint of the wrist and other similar complaints : the whole illustrated by cases, and engravings taken fron the diseased parts / by the late Edward Ford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    there, that has carefully pei'ufed the works of Mr. Pott, and has not feen the happy effedls produced by a clofe ftudy of the claffic authors of furgery, combined with an unremit- ted cUnical attention to difeafes, and their fymptoms ? To this fubjeft, on which much might be faid, the words of a moft refpe6lable furgeon are well adapt- ed*: Highly as all pra6lical know- *' ledge ought to be valued, it muft be *' confefTed, that a man may learn a ^' great deal by a juft comparifon of his own, with the obfervations of *' others, who have been placed in li- milar circumfiances with himfelf, ^' who may perhaps have been endued * See the Preface to ,Mr. Howard's Obfer- vations on tlie Venereal Difeafe.