The ligature preferable to agaric, in securing the blood-vessels after amputations: in which the dangerous ... consequences ... are offered to the consideration of surgeons; and the experiments made ... by Monsieur Faget, and ... Mr. Warner, proved to be insufficient / [Henry Parker].

  • Parker, Henry, active 1745-1780.
Date:
1755
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Credit: The ligature preferable to agaric, in securing the blood-vessels after amputations: in which the dangerous ... consequences ... are offered to the consideration of surgeons; and the experiments made ... by Monsieur Faget, and ... Mr. Warner, proved to be insufficient / [Henry Parker]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    But theie objections to the ufe of the Agaric, it may be faid, are in a great degree, if not altogether re¬ moved, by Mr. Warner’s method of applying it to the arteries only, and drefiing the wound, in other refpects, in the ufual manner. But, granting this to be true, there are others may arife, which will be found abundant¬ ly fufficient to abolifh this practice; notwithftanding the fuccefs that gen¬ tleman has had in amputating five legs and a bread:: for it is very obfervable, that in all thefe cafes, the patient, either by the long continuance of the difeafe, or a large difcharge of mat¬ ter, were brought into fo low a date, as to render the circulation very weak and languid ; on which account the Agaric might be found capable of re- Braining the haemorrhage. And I am fully perfuaded, (if furgeons could be found who would be rafh enough to rifque the lives of their patients) that dry lint, dip’d in fine flower, and fe- cured
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