Critical reflections on several important practical points relative to the cataract : comprehending an account of a new and successful method of couching particular species of that disease / by Samuel Cooper.

  • Cooper, Samuel, 1780-1848.
Date:
1805
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Credit: Critical reflections on several important practical points relative to the cataract : comprehending an account of a new and successful method of couching particular species of that disease / by Samuel Cooper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    practical success, becomes immedi- ately blended with indignation, at even the most distant allusion to the prevalence either of errors, or de- fects. To be hastily accused, therefore, of ignorance, temerity, and arrogance, for venturing to deliver my sentiments on what has already given birth to a superabundance of publications, will not exceed the discouraging anticipa- tions of my own mind. However, as I am confident, that nothing retards our steps to perfection more, than a premature belief in the attainment of it, I should feel guilty of the most abject baseness, were the apprehen- sion of censures, equally precipitate and