A practical treatise on various diseases of the abdominal viscera / by Christopher Robert Pemberton.

  • Pemberton, Christopher Robert, 1765-1822.
Date:
1820
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A practical treatise on various diseases of the abdominal viscera / by Christopher Robert Pemberton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    and afflicting of human maladies ; and I seize on the present occasion of offering to you a Public testimony, however fee- ble and inadequate it may be, of the benefits, which I have received, and of the feelings with which I am impressed. All would agree, .that a Patient under the care of such practitioners, would re- ceive every good, which Science could confer, and my malady, has accordingly yielded, in great measure, to the power of your skill; but there are other consi- derations, which come nearer my heart, and demand from me acknowledgments, which I am unable to bestow: the ho- mage which is due to the achievements of Science, even when it is exerted under its highest form, may be expressed, though it cannot be magnified, by words; but when the exertions of this Science are combined with all those kind offices