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A critical enquiry into the present state of surgery.

  • Samuel Sharp
Date:
1761
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A critical enquiry into the present state of surgery. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    / On the P o l y p u s. \ TV/TOnsieur Levret, in a Treatife he has lately publifhed on the Nature of Poly- pufes both in the Uterus and the Nofe, has recommended a Manner of tying them, which he fuppofes more efficacious than any which has yet been publifhed. The Extirpation of a Polypus by Ligature, has been frequently advifed by others, and is even of as old a Date as the time of Hippocrates, who fpeaks7 of tying a Polypus of the Nofe ; but the Dif¬ ficulty of performing this Operation has ei¬ ther appeared fo great, or has by Experience been found fo great, that the ufual Method of removing it has been by Extraction with a Forceps, The Motive for preferring the Ligature to the Forceps, is the Probability of a Haemor¬ rhage after 'Extradion, which is defcribed by all Writers, and particularly by M. Levret, as exceedingly dangerous, efpecially in thofe Polypufes which hang down in the Throat. * 7 Liber de Ajfeftibus* R 3 This