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A critical enquiry into the present state of surgery.

  • Samuel Sharp
Date:
1761
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Credit: A critical enquiry into the present state of surgery. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SECT. III. Of the EMPYEMA. ft/TOnsieur Fouberty in a Memoir prefented ’***■* to the Academy of Surgery (Vol. I. Page 717.) has drawn up the Cafe of a Per- fon, who after fome pulmonary Complaints had a Tumor formed on the right fide a little above the Diaphragm, between the Cartilages of the fevcnth, eighth, and ninth Ribs, and the Cartilago Enfformis. He fays, that he would have opened the Tumor, had he not been overpowered by the Opinions of other Surgeons, who recommended the waiting for fome more evident Motive to the Incifion : During this Attendance the Patient died, and upon Diflfe&ion it appeared to be an Em¬ pyema ; the Matter of which pufhing forwards, had occafioned the Protuberance juft defcribed. The Inference made from this Diflfedlion, is the probability of giving help in fuch Cafes from a Difcharge of the Matter. It appears from the Tendency of this Me¬ moir, that the Operation for the Empyema, how much foever it may have always been advifed, has not yet been univerfally eftablifhed Q_4 by