John Murray Carnochan Quote

While respect for life will dictate to the surgeon the greatest prudence — will counsel him to attempt no operation which he would not be willing to perform on his own child — it will also teach him, that if the extremes of boldness are to be shunned, pusillanimity is not the necessary alternative.


Contributions to Operative Surgery and Surgical Pathology, Preface, Lindsay & Blakiston. 1857


While respect for life will dictate to the surgeon the greatest prudence — will counsel him to attempt no operation which he would not be willing...

While respect for life will dictate to the surgeon the greatest prudence — will counsel him to attempt no operation which he would not be willing...

While respect for life will dictate to the surgeon the greatest prudence — will counsel him to attempt no operation which he would not be willing...

While respect for life will dictate to the surgeon the greatest prudence — will counsel him to attempt no operation which he would not be willing...