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[John Hunter]'s uniqueness lay in looking beyond the specifics of individual cases to seek out the wider principles underlying both normal and abnormal physiology. To him, this was the true practice of surgery. Operating, which he advised only as a last resort, was "a tacit acknowledgement of the insufficiency of surgery". He extended scientific observation and deduction to everything he saw.
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Cutting Edge
Cutting edge The Knife Man: the extraordinary life and times of John Hunter, father of modern surgery Wendy Moore Bantam Press, 482pp, £18.99
Doctors tend to scorn hospital dramas on television, thinking that it is hard to suspend disbelief as violin prodigies with bra...See the full content of this document
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