An Inaugural Dissertation on Fractures

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Excerpt from An Inaugural Dissertation on Fractures: Submitted to the Examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S. S. T. P. Provost, the Trustees and Medical Faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, on the 12th Day of May, 1797, for the Degree of Doctor of MedicineIT is a common obfervation', and not unfre quently a true one, that every inltitution which exacts from a young man fome public tell: of his acquirements in the fcience which it embraces, previous to his receiving any of its honours, impofes on him the difagreeablc talk of publilh ing his ignorance and blunders to the world, Many reafons offer why this {hould be the cafe in medicine. The feience embraces fuch a variety offubjeas, as anatomy, chemistry, materia medica, the institutes and practice, that a man, who in the ufual time alloted to the ¿udy, acquires a general knowledge of each, may be faid to have fpent his time well, without having firiétly attended to any particular fubjeét as def tined for a future difi'ertation. Add to this, that many men, whoii: knowledge is accurate and ex tenfive, are by no means calculated for authors.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.