A letter respectfully addressed to the Commissioners for Transports, Sick and Wounded Seamen, etc., on the subject of the operation for popliteal aneurism. Illustrated by cases, and the description of a new instrument / [A. Copland Hutchison].

  • Hutchison, A. Copland (Alexander Copland), -1840
Date:
1811
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Credit: A letter respectfully addressed to the Commissioners for Transports, Sick and Wounded Seamen, etc., on the subject of the operation for popliteal aneurism. Illustrated by cases, and the description of a new instrument / [A. Copland Hutchison]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    t LETTER TO THE COMMISSIONERS FOR TRANSPORTS, SICK AND WOUNDED SEAMEN, #c.#c. Royal Naval Hospital, Deats \6tk May, 18118 Gentlemen, No science has made a more rapid progrefs towards attaining perfection, within the laft fifty years, than that of Surgery; and Purely none can be more generally ufeful. Its importance and utility will be still farther appre¬ ciated, when we confider the vaft increafe of our naval and military equipments for a war of unex-* ampled continuance and devaflation ; many of the evils of which it either wholly removes or tends confiderably to mitigate. The public appointment w hich I hold as Surgeon to this Hofpital, and the w ide field for practical obfervation that necefTarily lies open before me, renders it a duty I owe the ProfefTion, to lay be- B