Observations on diseased spine : illustrated by a case : and containing strictures upon Mr. Baynton's treatise on that disorder / by J. B. Estlin.

  • Estlin, John Bishop.
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1818
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    than personal remarks, of such a kind, as en- tirely to release him from all feelings of delicacy, and to determine him to reprint the article in its present form. The Author of these Observations disap- proved of the mode of treating diseases of the Spine which Mr. Baynton had proposed to the world in a Treatise on this disorder. The plan there suggested was at variance with the method recommended and pursued by those surgeons who have held the highest rank in this country. The cases brought forward as illustrative of the excellence of the new plan, appeared to afford very insufficient evidence of its superiority, and there seemed to be no better way of giving publicity to objections, than by communicating them to a work of the high character possessed by the Edinburgh Medical and SurgicalJournal, authenticated by the writer's name. He may be wrong in his conclusions, but he felt he had an undoubted right to state them; and he has the satisfaction to find, that every professional man he has corresponded or conversed with on the subject, coincides with him in opinion. In thejudgment of Mr. Earle, (an eminent Surgeon in London, whose criticism of Mr. Baynton's