The Early History of Surgery in Great Britain Its Organization And Development
The Early History of Surgery in Great Britain Its Organization And Development
George W Parker
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After our long struggle in the Napoleonic wars, when we withstood the whole force of Europe, England emerged stronger than ever, with a world-wide empire, a mastery of the seas so complete that we could hand back without fear to our neighbours their colonies, the whole of which had fallen into our hands. 161 ii 162 EARLY HISTORY OF SURGERY [1800- Then followed forty years of peace, when the revival of science had time to develop and the material results began to appear. These were so great as t...o form the strongest incentive to further efforts, even if the disinterested love of knowledge were absent, but, in fact, a real enthusiasm for science had grown up. The appearance of the first steamboat, the first railway train, the first telegraph, and the first practical compound micro- scope mark the arrival of a new age, and these gains were rivalled in other fields of work by the discoveries of the mathematicians, the chemists and the astronomers. In history a new method sprang up from the date of Gibbon's work, and the bounds of its subject-matter were enlarged by the discoveries of Egyptian and Assyrian life, of Sanscrit, and prehistoric lore.
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