Excerpt from Lectures on Anatomy, Surgery, and Pathology: Including Observations on the Nature and Treatment of Local Diseases Surgery and Medicine are essentially, what the French Republic was declared to be, "one and indivisible." Custom, however, has separated them into two parts, and I have now to speak of those diseases of which surgeons undertake the management. These are, for the most part, external injuries, such as are the result of accident, or such as require operations; but you will find these external diseases often arise from constitutional causes, and where a disease arises from the state of the general health, you must remove the cause before you can cure it. Again, when they arise from accident, you will find that local disease will disturb the whole constitution; consequently, if I were to begin to speak of local diseases, in the first instance, I should be perpetually adverting to the general system, and.it will be better, therefore, that I should first direct your attention to the nature of the constitutional affections which are produced, or which may be produced by local diseases. These constitutional affections having been previously considered, the subject of local diseases will be rendered simple, and a great deal of repetition will thus be saved. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.