A theoretical and practical treatise upon the ligature of arteries / translated from the French of P.J. Manec by J.W. Garlick and W.C. Copperthwaite ; with notes selected from the writings of many celebrated surgeons.

  • Manec, P. J. (Pierre Joseph), 1799-1884.
Date:
1832
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Credit: A theoretical and practical treatise upon the ligature of arteries / translated from the French of P.J. Manec by J.W. Garlick and W.C. Copperthwaite ; with notes selected from the writings of many celebrated surgeons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    modern authors who have treated upon the ligature, which have been added to the original work, either in the way of note or as appendices. It will be scarcely necessary to enumerate the works of Cooper, Gordon, Guthrie, Hodgson, Jones, Laennec, Lawrence, J. F. Meckel, Scarpa, Travers, Velpeau, and Thiorry, because each will suggest itself to the surgical student, as a source from whom information may be procured ; and it is still less requisite to recommend a perusal of the original authors themselves. But whilst the observations of these gentlemen have been copiously extracted, and to that extent that a partial repetition of words may occasionally be found to occur, in every instance, each has been respectively appropriated to its author, in precisely the same terms in which himself gave it to the public: for the reputation of any editor has deservedly a short endurance if founded merely upon any self-appropriation of the knowledge of another, the property which himself possesses in it, depending only upon the title of having clothed it with a verbiage of his own. The reader will thus obtain information of the notions entertained upon the subject by others, which he can use as criteria in forming his judgment upon those advocated in the text of the author ; or, reversely, he can employ the text for the purpose of testing the opinions of others. The examination of conflicting opinions with each other is always beneficial, from the greater attention which they induce ; and the very contrast itself will often point out a valuable truth, or detect a serious error, which otherwise might pass unnoticed: whenever, therefore, the statements made in the body of the work are contradicted, or rendered dubitable by a note or appendix which has been added, or when the contrary occurs, it must not be re- garded as an accidental occurrence, but indicative of a fact, the existence of which is still uncertain, or which has now been incontrovertibly proved.