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... nature , and a more humble idea of our own as to forcing that which can only come in time . It is perhaps in the increased knowledge and better treatment of wounds that the true philosophy of surgery has been most evinced in modern ...
... nature , and a more humble idea of our own as to forcing that which can only come in time . It is perhaps in the increased knowledge and better treatment of wounds that the true philosophy of surgery has been most evinced in modern ...
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... nature's actions were we to affect less in this respect , whilst there is a broad margin on which the guiding head of the surgeon might take full credit . It has , indeed , been truly said that surgery is the handmaid to nature ; and ...
... nature's actions were we to affect less in this respect , whilst there is a broad margin on which the guiding head of the surgeon might take full credit . It has , indeed , been truly said that surgery is the handmaid to nature ; and ...
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... nature , irrespective of what we fondly call civilised habits . In speaking of wounds , I should not be doing justice to my own views and experience , nor to the efforts of others , were I to omit reference to the more common use of ...
... nature , irrespective of what we fondly call civilised habits . In speaking of wounds , I should not be doing justice to my own views and experience , nor to the efforts of others , were I to omit reference to the more common use of ...
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... velopment of new tendon in some of these cases is a fine illustration of what Nature will do where man judiciously interferes with some of her imperfect works . How hopeless was our practice for strabismus in former times. 18 LECTURE I.
... velopment of new tendon in some of these cases is a fine illustration of what Nature will do where man judiciously interferes with some of her imperfect works . How hopeless was our practice for strabismus in former times. 18 LECTURE I.
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... nature of the accident or disease ; its probable issue ; how long it may be before a cure can be expected ; and , that being realised , in our anticipa- tions we think further of the patient's probable or pos- sible condition when it is ...
... nature of the accident or disease ; its probable issue ; how long it may be before a cure can be expected ; and , that being realised , in our anticipa- tions we think further of the patient's probable or pos- sible condition when it is ...
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